Andrey Kursanov

Andrey Lvovich Kursanov (Russian: Андрей Львович Курсанов; 8 November 1902 – 20 September 1999) was a Soviet specialist on the physiology and biochemistry of plants. He was an academician of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences since 1953. He was a member of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1957–1963.^[2]

Kursanov graduated from Moscow State University in 1926. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Sciences in biology in 1940 and became a professor at his alma mater in 1944.^[2] In 1954, Kursanov and Boris Rybakov represented the Soviet Academy of Sciences at the Columbia University Bicentennial in New York City.^[3]

Professor Kursanov was awarded a number of honorary doctorates and was an honorary member of a number of foreign scientific societies and academies. He was elected a foreign fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1962^[4] and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1965.^[2]

Awards and honors[edit]

• Hero of Socialist Labour (1969)^[2]
• Order of Lenin, four times (1953, 1969, 1972, 1975)^[2]
• Order of the October Revolution (1982)^[2]
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour, twice (1945, 1962)^[2]
• Lomonosov Gold Medal (1983)^[2]

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