| Andrey Kursanov | |
| Native Name: | Андрей Курсанов |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Birth Name: | Andrey Lvovich Kursanov |
| Birth Date: | 8 November 1902[1] |
| Birth Place: | Moscow, Russian Empire |
| Death Date: | 20 September 1999 (aged 96) |
| Death Place: | Moscow, Russia |
| Citizenship: | Soviet Union |
| Nationality: | Russian |
| Fields: | Biochemistry |
| Workplaces: | Moscow State University Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union |
| Alma Mater: | Moscow State University |
| Known For: | Contributions to the theory of the origin of life coacervates |
Andrey Lvovich Kursanov (Russian: Андрей Львович Курсанов; 8 November 1902 – 20 September 1999) was a Soviet specialist on the physiology and biochemistry of plants. He was an academician of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences since 1953. He was a member of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1957–1963.[2]
Kursanov graduated from Moscow State University in 1926. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Sciences in biology in 1940 and became a professor at his alma mater in 1944.[2] In 1954, Kursanov and Boris Rybakov represented the Soviet Academy of Sciences at the Columbia University Bicentennial in New York City.[3]
Professor Kursanov was awarded a number of honorary doctorates and was an honorary member of a number of foreign scientific societies and academies. He was elected a foreign fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1962[4] and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1965.[2]