Biography:Genrietta Dokhman
Genrietta Dokhman | |
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| Born | 1897 Kremenchug, Russian Empire (now Kremenchuk, Ukraine ) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University (Candidate of Sciences, Doctor of Sciences) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geobiology and phytocenology |
| Institutions | Krupskaia Institute of Communist Education University of Moscow |
Genrietta Dokhman (born 1897) was a Soviet geobiologist and phytocenologist.
Life and work
Genrietta Dokhman was born in 1897 in Kremenchug, in the Russian Empire (now Kremenchuk, Ukraine ). She graduated from the physical-mathematical department of the Moscow State University and did post-graduate work there while acting as an instructor in botany at the Krupskaia Institute of Communist Education from 1927 to 1930. Dokhman next worked as a geobotanist at the Institute of Agrodedology for a year and then for another year at the Department of Territorial Organization with the Territorial Organizational Research Institute of the Soviet People's Commissariat for Agriculture. She returned to Moscow State University in 1932, initially as an instructor until 1938 when she was promoted to lecturer. A year previously, she was awarded her Candidate of Sciences degree in the biological sciences. Five years later, Dokhman received her Doctor of Sciences degree. She became a full professor in 1946 and chair of the geobotany section of the Biology Department. "Dokhman wrote numerous publications on geobotanical and phytocenological subjects, including classification of steppe vegetation and history of the vegetation of the USSR."[1]
Notes
- ↑ Ogilvie & Harvey, p. 743
References
- Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy, eds (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the mid-20th Century. 1: A-K. New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-92039-6.
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