Background
Chailakhyan, Levon Mikhailovich was born on June 21, 1928 in Erevan, Armenia. Son of Mikhail Khristoforovich and Tamara Karpovna (Amatuni) Chailakhyan.
Chailakhyan, Levon Mikhailovich was born on June 21, 1928 in Erevan, Armenia. Son of Mikhail Khristoforovich and Tamara Karpovna (Amatuni) Chailakhyan.
Master of Science, Moscow State University, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy, Moscow State University, 1957; Doctor Biological Science, Institute Biophysics, 1968.
He was a director of the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics of Russian Academy of Sciences, located in Pushchino, Moscow Oblast. 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. Chailakhyan along with B.N. Veprintsev, T.A. Sviridova, Victoria and Albert Nikitin had cloned the first mammal, known as Masha the mouse, which was ten years before Dolly the Sheep.
Levon was born to Mikhail Chailakhyan, and Tamara Karlovna Amatuni-Chailakhyan.
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.
Member Russian Academy of Sciences.
Married Inessa Fedorovna Prudnikova, June 10, 1952 (divorced April 1991). Children: Tamara, Vera. Married Tatiana Anatolievna Sviridova, June 18, 1991.
1 child, Mikhail.