Dmitrii Knorre

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Dmitrii G. Knorre (born 1926) is a Chemist and Biochemist, specialist in chemical kinetics of complex reactions, bioorganic chemistry, and molecular biology. Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences since 1968, and academician since 1981. Principal membership in the Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Chemistry of Physiologically Active Compounds Department of the academy and of the Siberian Department since 1981.

He graduated from the D. I. Mendeleev Moscow Chemico-Technological Institute in 1947. He worked at the Chemical Physics Institute from 1947 to 1960 when he joined the Siberian Department in a laboratory studying natural polymers and joined the Department of biochemistry of the Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry. In 1962, he acted as Head of the Natural Polymers Laboratory of the Organic Chemistry Institute in Novosibirsk that was established in 1958 and whose basic work is in the study of aromatic and heterocyclic chemistry and in natural products. He was named Director-organizer of the Novosibirsk Bioorganic Chemistry Institute. He was named to the Presidium of the Siberian Branch in 1988. From 1967 to 1983, he was a professor on the faculty of natural sciences holding the chair in molecular biology from 1979. He is an honored scientist of the former Soviet Union. He received the Laureate Prize of the Soviet Ministry in 1987, and the M. M. Shemiakin AN SSSR Prize in 1988. He holds other recognitions and awards for his work.