Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shmuk
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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shmuk ( in Moscow
- January 22, 1945, Moscow) was a Soviet biochemist and recipient of the Stalin Prize in 1942.
In 1913 Shmuk finished his studies at the Moscow Agricultural Academy. Between 1923 and 1937 he worked at the All-Union Institute of Tobacco and Low-Grade Tobacco while simultaneously holding a professorship at the Kuban
Institute of Agriculture. He studied the biochemistry
of tobacco
and won (in 1942) the Stalin Prize for his work deriving nicotine, citric acid and malic acid from low-grade tobacco (makhorka). He is known primarily for his three volume work The Chemistry and Technology of Tobacco and for his development of a tobacco quality index which is calculated as the ratio between soluble carbohydrates and proteins.
In 1935 he became member of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the Soviet Union
. He finished his career at the Soviet Academy of Science's
Institute of Biochemistry.
Shmuk, A., Vscsoyus. Inst. Tabach. i. Makhoroch Prom. No. 139, 3 (1937)
Shmuk, A., Bull. Acad. Sci. USSR, 6 (1937)
Shmuk, A., Papers, Acad. Sci. USSR, 2 (1940)
Shmuk A., Smirnov A., Ilyin G. "Formation of nicotine in plants grafted on tobacco" CR(Doklady) Acad. Sci. URSS. (1941)
Shmuk, A., Papers, V. I. Lenin, All-Union Academy of Agricultural Science, 1, 2 and 3 (1945)
Shmuk, A., The Chemistry and Technology of Tobacco, Vols 1,2,3 Pishchepromizdat, Moscow, 1953)
Note: Shmuk appears in the English-language literature various as Schmuck, Shmuck, and Shmuk.
Moscow
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- January 22, 1945, Moscow) was a Soviet biochemist and recipient of the Stalin Prize in 1942.
In 1913 Shmuk finished his studies at the Moscow Agricultural Academy. Between 1923 and 1937 he worked at the All-Union Institute of Tobacco and Low-Grade Tobacco while simultaneously holding a professorship at the Kuban
Kuban
Kuban is a geographic region of Southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between the Don Steppe, Volga Delta and the Caucasus...
Institute of Agriculture. He studied the biochemistry
Biochemistry
Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...
of tobacco
Tobacco
Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as a pesticide and, in the form of nicotine tartrate, used in some medicines...
and won (in 1942) the Stalin Prize for his work deriving nicotine, citric acid and malic acid from low-grade tobacco (makhorka). He is known primarily for his three volume work The Chemistry and Technology of Tobacco and for his development of a tobacco quality index which is calculated as the ratio between soluble carbohydrates and proteins.
In 1935 he became member of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the Soviet Union
VASKhNIL
VASKhNIL was the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the Soviet Union...
. He finished his career at the Soviet Academy of Science's
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....
Institute of Biochemistry.
Selected publications
Shmuk, A., “State Institute Tobacco Investigations”, Krasnodar (U.S.S.R.) Bull., 69, 15 (1930)Shmuk, A., Vscsoyus. Inst. Tabach. i. Makhoroch Prom. No. 139, 3 (1937)
Shmuk, A., Bull. Acad. Sci. USSR, 6 (1937)
Shmuk, A., Papers, Acad. Sci. USSR, 2 (1940)
Shmuk A., Smirnov A., Ilyin G. "Formation of nicotine in plants grafted on tobacco" CR(Doklady) Acad. Sci. URSS. (1941)
Shmuk, A., Papers, V. I. Lenin, All-Union Academy of Agricultural Science, 1, 2 and 3 (1945)
Shmuk, A., The Chemistry and Technology of Tobacco, Vols 1,2,3 Pishchepromizdat, Moscow, 1953)
Note: Shmuk appears in the English-language literature various as Schmuck, Shmuck, and Shmuk.