Zoe Shabarova

Zoe Shabarova
Born(1925-08-15)August 15, 1925
DiedSeptember 19, 1999(1999-09-19) (aged 74)
NationalityRussian
Alma materMoscow State University
AwardsJubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970)

USSR State Prize for the cycle of works "Reverse transcriptase (revertase)" (1979)

Jubilee badge "225 years of MSU" (1980)

Medal "Veteran of Labor" (1984)

Prize of the Ministry of Higher Education of the USSR for work on the creation of a solid-phase method for the synthesis of gene fragments and the development of a domestic automatic gene synthesizer "Victoria" (1980, 1982, 1986)

Lenin Prize together with D. G. Knorre, R. I. Salganik, N. I. Grineva (1990) for a series of works "Creating the foundations of targeted modification of genetic structures" (1990)

Honorary title of "Distinguished Professor of Moscow State University" (1996)
Scientific career
FieldsBioorganic chemistry
InstitutionsMoscow State University
Doctoral advisorM.A. Prokofiev

Zoe Alekseevna Shabarova (Russian: Зоя Алексеевна Шабарова; August, 15 1925 – September, 19 1999) was a Soviet organic chemist and Honored Professor of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Her work became fundamental for the development of the theoretical principles of bioorganic chemistry, especially in the area of chemistry of nucleic acids, their properties and synthesis.[1]