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Levon Mikhailovich Chailakhyan (Armenian: Լևոն Միքայելի Չայլախյան, ‹See Tfd›Russian: Левон Михайлович Чайлахян; 21 June 1928 – 23 February 2009) was a Russian physiologist, biophysicist, and embryologist, also a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was a director of the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics of Russian Academy of Sciences, located in Pushchino, Moscow Oblast.[1]
Levon Chailakhyan | |
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Died | February 23, 2009 80) | (aged
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Fields | physiology, biophysics, embryology |
Institutions | Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics of Russian Academy of Sciences |
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.[2] Chailakhyan along with B.N. Veprintsev, T.A. Sviridova, V.A. Nikitin had cloned the first mammal, known as Masha the mouse, which was ten years before Dolly the Sheep.[2]
Levon Chailakhyan was born in Yerevan to Mikhail Chailakhyan and Tamara Karlovna Amatuni-Chailakhyan. He was ethnic Armenian.
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.[3]
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