Andrey Kursanov

Andrey Lvovich Kursanov (Андрей Львович Курсанов; 8 November 1902, Moscow – 20 September 1999, Moscow) 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 USSR in 1957-1963.

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.

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 and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1965.

Awards and honours

 * Hero of Socialist Labour (1969)
 * Order of Lenin, four times (1953, 1969, 1972, 1975)
 * Order of the October Revolution (1982)
 * Order of the Red Banner of Labour, twice (1945, 1962)
 * Lomonosov Gold Medal of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1983)

and other awards