Levon_Chailakhyan

Levon Chailakhyan

Levon Chailakhyan

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Levon Mikhailovich Chailakhyan (Armenian: Լևոն Միքայելի Չայլախյան, Russian: Левон Михайлович Чайлахян; 21 June 1928 – 23 February 2009) was a Russian physiologist, biophysicist, and embryologist, also a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was a director of the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics of Russian Academy of Sciences, located in Pushchino, Moscow Oblast.[1]

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Chailakhyan published more than 450 works in Russian, and other countries around the world, he was also awarded the medal of the All-Russia Physiological Society.[2] Chailakhyan along with B.N. Veprintsev, T.A. Sviridova, V.A. Nikitin had cloned the first mammal, known as Masha the mouse, which was ten years before Dolly the Sheep.[2]

Biography

Levon Chailakhyan was born in Yerevan to Mikhail Chailakhyan and Tamara Karlovna Amatuni-Chailakhyan. He was ethnic Armenian.

When he was 19, Levon began his education at the Biological Faculty of the Moscow State University, and graduated with specializing in Human and animal physiology.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "Скончался Левон Михайлович Чайлахян" (in Russian). Биомедицинский Журнал. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  2. [2]
    A. V., Kulikov; G. R. Ivanitsky (2010). "He was like no other (In memoriam Levon Mikhailovich Chailakhyan)". 55 (3). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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    Bazyan, A. S.; V. P. Reutov (2010). "Physiologist, biophysicist, and embryologist Levon Mikhailovich Chailakhyan". 55. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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