Feofan Davitaia

Feofan Davitaia
BornSeptember 2 (15) 1911
village Eki, now Senaki Municipality
Died29 July 1979 (1979-07-30) (aged 67)
Tbilisi, Georgia
NationalityGeorgia
CitizenshipSoviet
Alma materTbilisi State University
Scientific career
FieldsGeography, Climatology, agrometeorology

Feofan Farneevich Davitaia (Georgian: თეოფანე ფარნას ძე დავითაია; 2 (15) September 1911, in village Eki, now Senaki Municipality, Georgia – 29 July 1979, in Tbilisi, Georgia) was a Georgian geographer, climatologist and agrometeorologist. doctor of agricultural sciences (1951), academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR (1960), Honored Scientist of the Georgian SSR (1966).[1] Became a member of the CPSU in 1939. Davitaia was professor of the universities of Leningrad (1950–1951) and Moscow (1955–1961). In Moscow, for several years he also delivered lectures at the Courses for the improvement of professional skill at the Central Board of Hydrometeorological Service, USSR Council of Ministers.[2] From 1963, Davitaia continued educational work at Tbilisi State University, directing a large number of postgraduates who successfully developed his ideas in their research.[3]

For 15 years, Davitaia was a member of the Scientific and Technological Council of the USSR Ministry of Agriculture; he took an active part in the work of the State Commission for the strain testing of agricultural crops on the territory of our vast country. He participated in the preparation of the many-volume fundamental edition "Ampelography of the USSR".[4]

  1. ^ Feofan Farneevich Davitaia | Great Soviet Encyclopedia
  2. ^ E. Eliozishvili (1984). Feofan Davitaia : Bibliography. Tbilisi: Mecniereba. pp. 1–159.
  3. ^ Mikhail Budyko; Goltsberg, i. (1984). Feofan Davitaia (1911—1979), Bibliography. Tbilisi: Mecniereba. pp. 21–28.
  4. ^ Sakartvelos Respublika | Georgian National Academy of Sciences