Vladimir Palladin Explained

Vladimir Palladin
Birth Name:Vladimir Ivanovich Palladin
Birth Place:Moscow, Russian Empire
Death Date:3 February 1922 (aged 62)
Death Place:Leningrad, Soviet Union
Nationality:Russian
Field:Biochemistry and botany
Doctoral Advisor:Kliment Timiryazev

Vladimir Ivanovich Palladin (Russian: Влади́мир Ива́нович Палла́дин; – 3 February 1922) was a Russian and Soviet biochemist and botanist, a member of Saint Petersburg of Academy of Sciences. After graduating in 1883 from the Moscow State University, in 1886 he defended a PhD and in 1889 a habilitation on the role of oxygen in metabolism in plants. He later became professor of universities in Kharkiv (1889), Warsaw (1897) and Saint Petersburg (1901–1914). Palladin is one of the founders of the theory of metabolism in plants and of a school of Russian scientists studying the associated processes. His son Aleksandr Palladin became president of Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.