Background
TERENIN, Aleksandr was born on May 8, 1896 in Kaluga.
TERENIN, Aleksandr was born on May 8, 1896 in Kaluga.
1921 graduate Physics and Mathematics Faculty, Petrograd University.
From 1919 worked for State Optics Institute. Specialist in nature of chemical and physical processes occuring in substances under the effect of light. First to record infra-red spectra of gases under extreme pressure.
Specialized in photosynthesis. 1932-1939 correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Founder-director, Catalysis Laboratory, Leningrad University.
Founder-director, Photobiochemistry Laboratory, Institute of Biochemistry, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. 1960-1963 Bureau member, Department of Chemical Sciences, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. 1965 reported on kinetics of fast reactions at 6th European Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy, Copenhagen.
Chairman, Sciences Council on Photosynthesis, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
Religiously inspired people justify violence, resist social changes, and attack on science.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1939.