Professor A. A. Richter scientific and pedagogical activity in Saratov (150th anniversary of Academician Andrey Alexandrovich Richter)
The year of 2021 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Andrey Alexandrovich Richter, a prominent scientist, botanist and plant physiologist (August 15, 1871), who worked for a number of years at Saratov University (1924–1931), then moved on to the Academy of Sciences (Corresponding Member in 1929, Member since 1932). He was the organizer and the fi rst director of the Institute of Plant Physiology of the Academy of Sciences (IPR RAS). A. A. Richter is a well-known fi gure in Russian university education, who began his road in science at St. Petersburg University as a student of A. S. Famintsyn and I. P. Borodin. A. A. Richter is also remembered as one of the founders of Perm University, as well as organizer of departments and laboratories of plant physiology at Perm and Saratov universities. As an experimental scientist he laid the foundation for modern understanding of the physiological processes in plants. A. A. Richter had many students who continued research in the scientifi c schools he established to study photosynthesis (A. A. Nichiporovich), plant nutrition (D. A. Sabinin), plant resistance to external factors and immunity problems (K. T. Sukhorukov).
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