Zurab Urushadze
Zurab Urushadze (born August 22,1930) is a Georgian biophysicist, one of the founders of Quantum Biophysics and Bioelectrochemistry in Georgia, PhD, Professor. In 1955 he graduated from the Moscow State University. In 1955-1957 Urushadze was a Research Fellow of NIOPIK (Moscow), in 1958-1977 - Leading Engineer-Physicist (1958-1971) and Senior Research Fellow - Head of the Group of Biophysics (1971-1977) of the Institute of Plant Biochemistry (now the Durmishidze Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology) of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (Tbilisi), in 1977-1981 - Associate Professor of the Georgian State Agrarian University, in 1981-1983 - Senior Research Fellow - Deputy Head of the Department of Theoretical Investigations of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and Electrochemistry of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, in 1983-1997 - Head of the Department of Physics (1983-1993) and Professor (1993-1997) of the Georgian State Agrarian University. In 1972 he received a PhD degree in Theoretical Physics, since 1991 he is a Full Professor. Since 1998 Urushadze is a Co-ordinator of Educational Program of the Georgian National Section of EUROSCIENCE, since 1999 - a Professor of the Marneuli State Institute of Management of the Georgian State Agrarian University.Urushadze is co-author of the Semi-Classical Method of Calculation of Kinetic Parameters of the Chemical and Biochemical Reactions in Polar Liquids (Method of Dogonadze-Urushadze, 1971), co-author of the Quantum-Mechanical Model of Enzyme Catalysis (with Mikhail Volkenshtein, Revaz Dogonadze and others, 1972-1975) and co-author of the Hypothesis about Quantum-Mechanical Mechanism of influence of Nonpolar Media over Biochemical Reactions (1971-1972, 1979, 1986-1989), strenghened the suggestion expressed earlier by Max Perutz.