Background
BUTKEVICH, Vladimir was born on June 19, 1872.
Botanist microbiologist and biochemist
BUTKEVICH, Vladimir was born on June 19, 1872.
1889 graduate Tula Classical Gymnasium. 1894 graduate Natural Sciences Department, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, Moscow University. 1897 graduate Moscow Agric Institute.
1898-1899 assistant professor, Saint St. Petersburg Agric Laboratory. Russian Minister of Agriculture 1899-1901 in Switzerland and Germany.
1901-1903 prepared for professorship at Moscow Agric Institute. From 1903 associate professor, Chair of Botany, Moscow University. 1903-1904 senior assistant professor, Chair of Plant Physiology, Novorossiysk University.
1904-1905 lecturer in plant anatomy and physiology, Warsaw Polytech Institute and lecturer in botany, Warsaw Veterinary Institute. 1905-1921 professor, Novo-Aleksandriysk Agric Institute. 1921-1925 associate, Petrovsk Agric Academy.
1925-1928 professor, 2nd Moscow Stale University. 1928-1942 professor, Timiryazev Agric Academy, Moscow. Died major research on the transformation of proteins in plants, determined the function of alpha-aminosuccinamic acid as a reservoir of nitrogenous substances in plants.
Also did important research on the chemism of the formation and transformation of organic acids in plants-an area of plant physiology which he developed almost singlehanded. Developed new theory of plant respiration according to which the basic process consists in the acidification of hydrocarbons without preliminary fission along the lines of spirit fermentation: his work on the formation of citric acid in mould fungi led to the creation of a new branch of the Soviet chemical industry-the production of citric acid from sugar. His microbiological method of prospecting for oil and gas is of importance for the oil industry, as is his method of determining how much phosphorus and nitrogenous fertilizer different soils need for agriculture
Did research on the bacteria of the Arctic seas and established the presence of micro-organisms in the formation of ferromanganese deposits on the sea bed. Wrote over 110 works.
Since religion offers a complete set of answers to the problems of purpose, morality, origins, or science, it discourages exploration of those areas by suppressing curiosity, denies its followers a broader perspective, and prevents social, moral and scientific progress.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.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 1929. Honorary member, Russian Botanical Social from 1926.