Andrey Nikolayevich Belozersky (Андре́й Никола́евич Белозе́рский) (29 August 1905 (Tashkent, Turkestan region, Russian Empire) – 31 December 1972 (Moscow, Soviet Union)) was a Soviet biologist and biochemist, one of the pioneers of molecular biology studies in the Soviet Union. He was an academic of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union from 1962 and its vice president from 28 May 1971 to 31 December 1972. He conducted research related to the composition of nucleic acids and their distribution in different organisms. He also obtained the first evidence of the existence of mRNA and laid the foundations of genosystematics.
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