Khachatour Koshtoyants
Khachatour Koshtoyants (Russian: Хачатур Седракович Коштоянц; September 26, 1900 – April 2, 1961) was a Soviet and Russian physiologist,[1] Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (since 1939),[1] Member of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences (since 1943),[1] Professor at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (since 1930),[1] Doktor Nauk in Biological Sciences (1935).[2]
He was a Laureate of the 1947 Stalin Prize.[1]
Life
He was born in Armenia.[3] He graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1926.[1] From 1929 he worked in his alma mater.[2] In 1935 he received the title of Professor.[2]
From 1943 Koshtoyants headed the Department of Physiology of Animals at the Lomonosov Moscow State University.[1] Also from 1936 he worked at the Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.[1] From 1946 to 1953 he was Director of the Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology.[1]