Sergei Winogradsky



Sergei Winogradsky

BornSeptember 1, 1856
Kiev, Russian Empire
DiedFebruary 25, 1953
Brie-Comte-Robert, France
FieldMicrobiology
InstitutionsImperial Conservatoire of Music in St Petersburg (piano)
University of Saint Petersburg
University of Strasbourg
Pasteur Institute
Alma materUniversity of Saint Petersburg
Known forMartinus Beijerinck

Sergei Nikolaievich Winogradsky (or Vinogradskii; Russian: Сергей Николаевич Виноградский) (September 1, 1856- February 25, 1953) was a Russian microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist who pioneered the nitrification, the first known form of chemoautotrophy.

Winogradsky was born in Kiev, in what was then the Russian Empire, and entered the Imperial Conservatoire of Music in St Petersburg in 1875 to study piano.[1] However, after two years of music training, he entered the University of Saint Petersburg in 1877 to study chemistry under cellulose-decomposing bacteria, and culture methods for soil microorganisms. Winogradsky retired from active life in 1940 and died in Brie-Comte-Robert.

  Winogradsky is best known for discovering chemoautotrophy, the process by which organisms derive energy from a number of different Winogradsky column remains a fascinating display of chemoautotrophy and microbial ecology, demonstrated in microbiology lectures around the world.

Further reading

  • Waksman, S.A. 1946. "Sergei Nikolaevitch Winogradsky: The study of a great bacteriologist" Soil Science 62:197-226.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Thornton, H.G. 1953. "Sergei Nicholaevitch Winogradsky. 1856-1953." Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 8(22):635-644.


Persondata
NAME Winogradsky, Sergei
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Microbiology
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev, Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1953
PLACE OF DEATH Brie-Comte-Robert, France
 
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