Gleb Krotkov
Gleb Paul Krotkov | |
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Born | |
Died | January 29, 1968 | (aged 66)
Alma mater | University of Toronto |
Occupation | plant physiologist |
Awards | Flavelle Medal (1964) |
Gleb Paul Krotkov, FRSC (May 9, 1901 – January 29, 1968) was a Canadian academic and plant physiologist.
Born in Moscow, Russian Empire, he joined the White Russian Navy. After the defeat of the White forces in 1920 during the Russian Civil War, he managed to escape to Prague.
Later he emigrated to Canada and received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1934. He then joined the faculty of biology at Queen's University and taught there until his death.
From 1958 to 1963, Krotkovwas the head of the department. He helped establish the first radio-isotope lab for biological research in Canada in 1948 and published over 75 research papers on plant physiology.
In 1950, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and was awarded the Flavelle Medal in 1964. In 1955, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
References
- "GLEB KROTKOV, 1901-1968". PubMed Central. Retrieved August 19, 2005.
- 1901 births
- 1968 deaths
- Canadian botanists
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
- Guggenheim Fellows
- People from Moscow
- Queen's University faculty
- Imperial Russian emigrants to Canada
- Russian military personnel
- Russian people of World War I
- White Russians (movement)
- Plant physiologists
- 20th-century botanists
- White Russian emigrants to Canada
- White Russian emigrants to Czechoslovakia
- Imperial Russian emigrants to Czechoslovakia