Person Timiriazeff; Clement Arkadevich (1843 - 1920); botanist and physiologist Timiriazeff Clement Arkadevich botanist and physiologist Климент Аркадьевич Тимирязев Kliment Arkadievich Klement Arkadevich Timiriazev Timiryazev 1843 - 1920 Russian Male Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire 03 June 1843 18430603 Moscow, Russian Soviet Republic 28/04/1920 19200428

botanist and physiologist Plant physiology Physiology Botany 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) 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. Lectures: Croonian 1903 Foreign Member 09/11/1911 68 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 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] International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Timiriazeff%2C+Clement+Arkadevich RCN 20811 3 Jun 1843 - 28 Apr 1920 The past Fellows entries are under continuous revision. If you have queries or additional information to contribute, please contact Library@royalsociety.org. Content in external sources is not controlled by the Royal Society and historical sources may include content that is now unacceptable. Reviewed on 14/03/2024 as part of the Name Authority Project update. NA533 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 14/03/2024 RS_NET\VidaM Yes 69cd86eb-a46e-41aa-9fb4-e2df442d8bcd