Andrei Famintsyn

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Andrei Sergeyevich Famintsyn (June 17 (O.S. June 29), 1835, Moscow - December 8, 1918, Petrograd) was a Russian botanist, public figure, and academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1884). Famintsyn attended Saint Petersburg State University and studied under Russian fungal expert Lev Semionovich Tsenkovsky. In 1861, he continued his scientific career as a teacher at his alma mater and became a professor (1867-1889). In 1890, Famintsyn founded and headed the Laboratory of Plant Anatomy and Physiology of the Academy of Sciences (today's Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences). Famintsyn is considered the founding father of the Petersburg school of plant physiologists (Ivan Borodin, Alexander Batalin, Dmitry Ivanovsky and others). In 1887, he authored the first Russian textbook on plant physiology. His major works were dedicated to photosynthesis and plant metabolism.