Murat Abenovich Aitkhozhin was a Kazakh Soviet molecular biologist: the founder of molecular biology in Kazakhstan.
15 Facts About Murat Aitkhozhin
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Murat Aitkhozhin was the President of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences, Deputy of The Supreme Soviet of the USSR, member of the Soviet Peace Fund.
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Murat Aitkhozhin was the founder and first Director of the Kazakh Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry as well as being an Academian of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, Doctor of Sciences, Professor and Lenin Prize laureate.
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Murat Aitkhozhin was born on 29 June 1939 in Petropavlovsk in the Kazakh SSR in a large family.
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Murat Aitkhozhin was educated at the Kazakh State University and Moscow State University.
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At this international symposium Murat Aitkhozhin made a large plenary report.
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On 22 April 1986, at a turning point for the country and the republic, Murat Aitkhozhin was elected as President of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, a post in which he served until his death in 1987.
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Murat Aitkhozhin created the only dissertation council in the Central Asian region on the defense of candidate dissertations in molecular biology and biochemistry.
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Murat Aitkhozhin was the founder of molecular biology and biotechnology in Kazakhstan.
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In 1983, Murat Aitkhozhin founded the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR.
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Murat Aitkhozhin first introduced the course of molecular biology and a number of special courses for students of the biological faculty of the Kazakh State University.
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Under the leadership of Murat Aitkhozhin, a set of instruments for the automation of molecular biological experiments was developed, which was protected by 15 copyright certificates and 16 patents in leading countries.
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Murat Aitkhozhin was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 11th convocation from the Chapaevsky constituency of the Ural region and a delegate to the XXVII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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Murat Aitkhozhin was a member of the Soviet Peace Fund, and was appointed Chairman of the Republican branch of the Soviet Peace Fund in 1981.
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Murat Aitkhozhin was awarded the Gold Medal of the Soviet Peace Fund in 1987 as well as the Order of the Friendship of Peoples.