KNORRE DMITRII GYEORGIYEVICH (dob 28.VII.1926). Soviet chemist and biochemist, acad. AS USSR (since 1981). He was born in Leningrad. He graduated from Moscow chemical and technological institute (1947). He worked in the Institute of Chem. Physics AS USSR, since 1961 in the Institute of Org. Chemistry SB AS USSR (Novosibirsk); at the same time (since 1961) he teaches in Novosibirsk University. Since 1984, he is the director of Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry SB AS USSR. Acad.-secretary of the Dept. Biochemistry, biophysics, and chemistry of physiologically active compounds (since 1990). His works fall into chem. kinetics and molecular biology. He investigated (up to 1961) degenerate-branched chain reactions. He studies kinetics and mechanism of peptide synthesis by means of carbodiimides, the processes of modification of nucleic acids by carbodiimides and alkylating agents. He has suggested (1971) the technique of affine labeling of functional centres of a ribosome. The Lenin prize (1990).