Dmitry Anatolyevich Sabinin | |
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| Born | 17 November (29), 1889 Saint Petersburg, The Russian Empire |
| Died | 22 April 1951 (age 61) Golubaya Bukhta, near Gelendzhik, Krasnodar Territory, The USSR |
| Known for | Criticism of the works of T. D. Lysenko |
| Awards | K. A. Timiryazev Prize |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Doctor of Biological Sciences (1935) |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg University (1913) |
| Academic advisors | V. I. Palladin,A. A. Richter |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Botany, Plant Physiology |
| Institutions | Perm University, Research Institute of Cotton Growing in Tashkent,All-Union Institute of Fertilizers, Agrochemistry and Agrosoil Science,Moscow State University, Institute of Plant Physiology of the USSR Academy of Sciences |
| Notable students | P. A. Genkel,O.A. Semikhatov |
Dmitry Anatolievich Sabinin (1889–1951) was a Sovietbotanist,plant physiologist, Vice-Rector (1923–1924), Head of the Department of Plant Physiology (1924–1929) ofPerm University, Head of the Department of Plant Physiology ofMoscow State University (1932–1948), Head of the Laboratory of theInstitute of Plant Physiology of theUSSR Academy of Sciences (1938–1941).
Born on 17 November (29), 1889 inSt. Petersburg.
In 1913, he graduated fromImperial Saint Petersburg University.
In 1918, he was invited toPerm University as a senior assistant at the Department of Plant Physiology. Participated in the creation of a plant physiology laboratory, in the work of the Kama Biological Station, and theBiological Research Institute at Perm University. In 1923, he received the title of professor and a year later was appointed head of the department of plant physiology.[1]
From February 1923 to 17 December 1924,[2] he worked as Vice-Rector (head of the scientific and educational department) of Perm University.
As of 1929, he was head of the laboratory of the Research Institute of Cotton Growing inTashkent, and since 1932, he was head of the laboratory of the All-Union Institute of Fertilizers, Agrochemistry, and Agrosoil Science.
From 1932 to 1948, he was a professor and head of the Plant Physiology department atMoscow State University.[3] While teaching atMoscow State University for over ten years, he openly criticizedLysenkoism / theteachings ofT. D. Lysenko.
From 1938 to 1941, he was head of the laboratory ofInstitute of Plant Physiology of theUSSR Academy of Sciences.
In 1948, he was appointed director ofThe Botanical Garden of Moscow State University. After theAugust session of the All-Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 1948, which ushered in the era of the official recognition ofLysenkoism, he was relieved of his position as head of the botanical garden and the department of plant physiology of the biological faculty by order of the Minister of Higher Education of the USSR No. 1208 of 23 August 1948, "for the fight against theMichurinists" (aStalin-era euphemism, it meant he dared to criticizeT.D. Lysenko, who was aStalin protégé).[4]
From 1949 to 1951, he headed the Black Sea Station of theInstitute of Oceanology of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
He committed suicide in 1951 in Golubaya Bukhta nearGelendzhik (he shot himself).[5]
DaughterMarina (1917–2000) was amusicologist.
One of the most importantphytophysiologists of the 20th century, D.A. Sabinin was the first among biologists back in the early 1940s who understood the enormous role ofnucleic acids in plant ontogeny. His classic works on mineral nutrition, in which he substantiated the specific role of the root not only as a passive organ that absorbs water and minerals but also as the most important biochemical laboratory of the plant, were important stages in the development of plant physiology as a science. In 1945, for the monograph "Mineral Nutrition of Plants" (1940), he was awarded thePresidium of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.K. A. Timiryazev.[6]
D. A. Sabinin brought up a galaxy of students who played a huge role in the post-war development of plant physiology in the USSR: M. A. Ali-Zade, S. S. Andreenko, T. F. Andreeva, S. S. Baslavskaya, A. K. Belousova,P. A. Genkel, V. N. Zholkevich, M. G. Zaitseva, I. I. Kolosov, L. I. Krasovsky, B. G. Minina, N. G. Potapov,Yu. A. Samygin,O. A. Semikhatova,M. B. Shternberg, N. Z. Stankov, O. M. Trubetskova, A. F. Kleshnin, N. K. Tilgor, O. F. Tueva, Yu. L. Tselniker,V. V. Tserling, and many others.
He was buried on the territory of theSouthern Branch (in the past – the Black Sea Station) of theInstitute of Oceanology in Golubaya Bukhta.
In 1989, taking into account the importance of D. A. Sabinin in the restoration and development of domestic biology, his fruitful pedagogical activity as a professor at Moscow University, the Academic Council of the Faculty of Biology, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, established an annual award for the faculty members for the best work on biology, awarded to researchers or research teams.[7]
In 2005, theCrimean Astrophysical Observatory named the newly discovered minor planet (registered in the international catalog under number6591) "Sabinin" in honor of Dmitry Anatolyevich Sabinin.[8][9]
In honor of Dmitry Anatolyevich, the plant genusSabinia (2018)[10] [=CaroxylonThunb.].
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