Kliment Timiryazev
Kliment Arkadievich Timiryazev, sometimes Timiriazev (Russian: Климент Аркадьевич Тимирязев; 22 May [O.S. 3 June] 1843 – 28 April 1920) was a Russian Imperial botanist and physiologist and a major proponent of the Evolution Theory of Charles Darwin in Russia. He founded a faculty of vegetable physiology and a laboratory at the Petrovskoye Academy.
Kliment Timiryazev | |
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Timiryazev in 1911 | |
| Born | 22 May 1843 |
| Died | 28 April 1920 (aged 76) |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University |
| Awards | Croonian Lecture (1903) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany, physiology |
| Institutions | Moscow State University |
| Thesis | Spectral analysis of chlorophyll (1871) |
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