About Valide Tutayuq
Lived 1914 – 1980 (aged 66). Valide Tutayuq was a Russian botanist and university teacher.
Valide Tutayuq (23 September 1914 – 12 November 1980) was an Azerbaijani botanist and academic. She was the first woman from Azerbaijan to earn a PhD in botany.
Valide Tutayuq was born on 23 September 1914 in Shusha in present-day Azerbaijan. She graduated from the Azerbaijan State Agricultural University in 1934 and earned a PhD in 1939 and a Doctor of Science in 1949.
Tutayuq was head of the Botany Department at the Azerbaijan State Agricultural University from 1939 to 1957 and 1962 to 1980. From 1957 to 1962, she was head of the AEA Institute of Botany. She presented at the 9th International Botanical Congress in Montreal in 1959.
Valide Tutayuq died on 12 November 1980 in Baku.
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Who was Valide Tutayuq?
Soviet-Azeri botanist and administrator (1914-1980)
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Valide Tutayuq was born on 23 September 1914 in Shusha.
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Valide Tutayuq died on 12 November 1980 in Baku.
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Valide Tutayuq was a botanist and university teacher.
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Valide Tutayuq was Russian.
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