| Authorised form of name | Timiriazeff; Clement Arkadevich (1843 - 1920); botanist and physiologist |
| Other forms of name | Kliment Arkadievich |
| Klement Arkadevich |
| Other forms of surname | Timiriazev |
| Timiryazev |
| Dates | 1843 - 1920 |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Place of birth | Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Date of birth | 03 June 1843 |
| Place of death | Moscow, Russian Soviet Republic |
| Date of death | 28/04/1920 |
| Occupation | botanist and physiologist |
| Research field | Plant physiology |
| Physiology |
| Botany |
| Activity | Education: St Petersburg University PhD (1865)
Career: Published his first scientific work An Apparatus for the Study of the Decomposition of Carbon Dioxide (1868); sent abroad to prepare for the professorship (1868); worked for Hofmeister, Bunsen, Kirchhoff, and Berthelot and attended lectures by Helmholtz, Claude Bernard; upon his return to Russia he defended his master’s thesis (Spectral Analysis of Chlorophyll, 1871) and was subsequently appointed professor at the Petrovsky Agricultural Academy in Moscow; lectured on botany until the closure of the academy (1892); awarded the title Doctor of Botany for his work "On the Assimilation of Light by a Plant” and was invited to the Moscow University to the Department of Plant Anatomy and Physiology (1877); visited Charles Darwin (FRS 1839) at Down House (1877); Professor of Moscow University (1878); awarded title of Distinguished Ordinary Professor (1902); came to England as a delegate to the Darwin celebration in Cambridge (1909); left the university in protest against actions of the Minister of Education, Casso; reinstated Professor at Moscow University following the Great October Socialist Revolution but ill health prevented him from working in the department (1917).
Memberships:
Russian Academy of Sciences (1890)
Botanical Society of Scotland (1911) |
| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 09/11/1911 |
| Age at election | 68 |
| Proposer | Archibald Geikie; John Rose Bradford; William Crookes; William Jackson Pope; Frederic Stanley Kipping; Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock; Arthur Everett Shipley; Oldfield Thomas; Percy Alexander MacMahon |
| David Gill; Lazarus Fletcher; Charles James Martin; Walter Holbrook Gaskell; William Mitchinson Hicks; John Henry Poynting; Ernest Howard Griffiths; James Dewar |
| RSActivity | Lectures:
Croonian 1903 |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 20811 |
| OtherInfo | Founded a faculty of vegetable physiology and a laboratory at the Petrovskoye Academy.
Major proponent of the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin (FRS 1839) in Russia.
His research was focused on photosynthesis-related phenomena.
Pioneered the use of greenhouses for agricultural research in Russia. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; Prof. C. A. Timiriazeff, For.Mem.R.S. Nature 105, 430 (1920) [URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/105430a0; last accessed: 14/03/2024]; The Great Soviet Encyclopedia [URL: https://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/bse/139680/Тимирязев; last accessed: 14/03/2024] |
| Code | NA533 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1911/23 | Timiriazeff, Clement Arkadevich: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/23/2/277 | Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to Professor Kliment Arkadievich Timiryazev, [Foreign Member of the Royal Society], University of Moscow | 18 December 1902 |
| NLB/27/203 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Clement Arkadevich Timiriazeff, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 20 July 1903 |
| NLB/25/852 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Clement Arkadevich Timiriazeff, [Foreign Member, Royal Society], Moscow | 12 January 1903 |
| NLB/27/472 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Clement Arkadevich Timiriazeff, L'Universite, Moscow, Russia | 2 October 1903 |
| NLB/58/538 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Messrs Harrison & Sons] | 19 May 1920 |
| MC/26/262 | Letter from [Clement Arkadevich] Timiriazeff, to Sir Joseph [Larmor], [Royal Society] | November 1911 |
| NLB/61/682 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Frederick Frost] Blackman, FRS | 5 October 1921 |
| NLB/67/430 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Frederick Frost] Blackman, FRS | 18 December 1924 |
| NLB/68/402 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Frederick Frost] Blackman, FRS | 9 July 1925 |