Ilya Berezin (biochemist)

Ilya Vasilyevich Berezin (Russian: Илья Васильевич Березин) (9 August 1923 – 5 June 1987) was a Soviet physical chemist and biochemist, a specialist in chemical kinetics, enzyme physical chemistry, micellar catalysis and enzyme engineering. He held the degree of Doctor of Chemical Sciences, was elected Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1970, served as Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry at Moscow State University (MSU) (1969-1981), headed the Department of Chemical Enzymology at MSU, and was Director of the Bach Institute of Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1981-1987).