Vladimir Engelgardt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vladimir Engelgardt

Russian chemist

Date of Birth: 21-Nov-1894

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 10-Jul-1984

Profession: chemist, biochemist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Engelgardt (Russian: ???????? ????????????? ???????????) (December 3, 1894, in Moscow – July 10, 1984, in Moscow) was a Soviet biochemist, academician of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences (1944), academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1953), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1969).
He was the founder and the first director of the Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (later renamed the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology in his honor). Vladimir Engelgardt is considered to be one of the founders of molecular biology in the Soviet Union.