Andrei Famintsyn

Andrei Sergeyevich Faminzyn also Faminzin (Russian: Андрей Сергеевич Фаминцын; 17 Junijul / June 29 1835greg in Sokolniki in Moscow, .. † December 8, 1918 in Petrograd ) was a Russian biologist and plant physiologist.

Life

He graduated from the University of Saint Petersburg in 1857 and held there from 1861 to 1889 lectures on botany. In 1867 he was A.O. and in 1872 full professor of botany. In May 1879 he was put in jail. In 1887 he wrote the first Russian textbook of plant physiology. In 1890 he founded at the Academy the Laboratory of Anatomy and Physiology of Plants.

He worked on the photosynthesis and the metabolism of the plants. He showed the carbon dioxide assimilation of strength training even in artificial light.

His younger brother is the composer Alexander Sergeyevich Faminzyn (* 1841).

Publications

• The effect of light on the greening of the plants; St. Petersburg, 1855
• On the Development of the gonidia and zoospore formation of lichens (in conjunction with Voranetzky, Petersburg 1867)
• Contribution to the germ theory in the vegetable kingdom; ibid 1876
• Embryological studies; ibid 1879
• Studies of crystals and crystallites; ibid 1884
• Contribution to the symbiosis of algae and animals; ibid 1889
• Overview of the achievements in the field of botany in Russia during the 1.1890/91; German, Petersburg, 1892/93
• Studies on the ripening of the grapes