V.S. Butkevich’s contribution to microbiology and training at Timiryazev University

Abstract

Many scientific and pedagogical schools, new scientific and academic fields and disciplines emerged within the walls of Timiryazev Academy. People of science successfully solved practical problems and fundamental problems in a particular period. Brief information about Professor V.S. Butkevich is a tribute to a clever man with plenty of guts – microbiologist, plant physiologist, biochemist, who possessed encyclopaedic knowledge.