Hakob Sanasaryan | |
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Born | Yeranos, Armenia | 21 December 1936
Nationality | Armenian |
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Office | Member of the Supreme Council (Armenia) (First Convocation, 1990-1995) and Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentarian Committee on Nature Protection and Natural Resources. |
Alma mater | Yerevan State University (M.Sc. 1964) Institute for Chemistry of Natural Compounds (Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry) of Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, Moscow (Ph.D. 1974) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biochemistry |
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Thesis | Structure and Function of Vinomycin Analogs with Modified Lateral Chains and Altered Configuration of Asymmetric Centers (1974) |
Doctoral advisors | Academician Mikhail Mikhailovich Shemyakin and Academician Vadim Tikhonovich Ivanov |
Hakob Sanasaryan (Armenian: Հակոբ Սանասարյան; born December 21, 1936, in Yeranos, Armenia) is a leading Armenian environmental activist, author and biochemist, the cofounder of one of the first environmentalist groups in the former Soviet Union: Goyapahpanutyun (Armenian: Գոյապահպանություն meaning survival) in 1985. This group was later in 1989 coined in the press as the Greens Union of Armenia (GUA). Hakob Sanasaryan is to this day the president of the GUA.