Sabir Yunusovich Yunusov (March 18, 1909 in Tashkent

Tashkent

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 – November 29, 1995 in Tashkent

Tashkent

Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan and of the Tashkent Province. The officially registered population of the city in 2008 was about 2.2 million. Unofficial sources estimate the actual population may be as much as 4.45 million.-Early Islamic History:...

) was a Soviet

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 and Uzbek

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 chemist

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, known for his research in alkaloid

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 chemistry

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. He won the D.I. Mendeleev Gold Medal for this work (1971). Sabir Yunusov founded the Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances under the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR

Uzbek SSR

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 (of Uzbekistan

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 since 1991) in 1956. He was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR

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 (of Russia since 1991) from 1958 until his passing. He died and was buried in Tashkent

Tashkent

Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan and of the Tashkent Province. The officially registered population of the city in 2008 was about 2.2 million. Unofficial sources estimate the actual population may be as much as 4.45 million.-Early Islamic History:...

, Uzbekistan.