Background
LYUBIMENKO, Vladimir was born on January 16, 1873 in village Veydelovka, Voronezh Province. Son of an office worker
Botanist and plant physiologist
LYUBIMENKO, Vladimir was born on January 16, 1873 in village Veydelovka, Voronezh Province. Son of an office worker
1908-1914 worked at Nikita Botanical Garden. From 1914 worked at Saint St. Petersburg Botanical Garden (later Botanical Institute, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences). Professor, Leningrad University, Leningrad Military Medical Academy and other higher educational establishments.
Secretariat up laboratories of plant physiology in Kiev and Khar’kov. Did research on the formation of chlorophyll in plants, the process of photosynthesis and the formation of dry matter. Detected the existence of a chemical bond between proteins and chlorophyll in the living plastid and studied the relationship between yellow and green leaf pigment.
Interpreted chlorophyll formation as the oxidation of colorless leucophyll into "chlorophyllogen" and subsequent conversion in the presence of light into chlorophyll. In the course of research on photosynthesis concluded that this process begins at a higher light intensity in light-demanding plants than in shadephiles. Established that the intensity of photosynthesis and the accumultation of matter do not always correspond.
Noted that photosynthesis predominated in red light and matter accumulation in blue and violet light. Wrote over 200 works.
Religion is bad because it stops people thinking in a rational and objective way.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1922. Member, Ukraine Academy of Sciences from 1929.