Nationality Armenian Name Sos Alikhanian | Died January 26, 1985 Fields Geneticist | |
Alma mater The Moscow Institute of National Economy Notable awards Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the RSFSR (1977) | ||
Sos Isaakovich Alikhanyan (Russian: Сос Исаакович Алиханян ; November 26, 1906 – January 26, 1985) — was a Soviet/Armenian geneticist, Professor (1960), Doctor of Biological Sciences (1958), one of the founders of several research directions in the Soviet genetic engineering. Author of several books on genetics. Sos Alikhanyan worked at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow State University, and the State Institute of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms. Geneticist Sos Alikhanian is one of the founders of molecular genetics in the USSR. Alikhanyan took active part in organizing and directing the national journal "Genetics".
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Biography
Sos Alikhanyan was born in Baku in 1906. He graduated from the school in Tbilisi In 1930 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of National Economy. From 1931 to 1948, he worked at the Department of Genetics in the Moscow State University. In 1956, he worked at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy and remained there until 1968. Thereafter, he headed the State Research Institute of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms which was organized with his efforts in 1968 and thus remained there until 1975. Currently the Institute is a leading biotechnology institute of the Russian Federation and the center of modern molecular genetics of microorganisms.