Azerbaijan National Academy of Science

Well-known scientist in the field of Soil Science and Radiological Sciences, corresponding member of ANAS Mahmud Abdullayev is 75.

Mahmud Abdullayev was born in 1941 in Ganja. In 1962 he graduated from the Azerbaijan Agricultural Institute. In the same year he was hired by an expedition of the soil Baku Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences. At first he worked here as a cartographer technician, then as an engineer and soil scientist.

In 1967-1971 he worked as head the Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry in Jalilabad Zonal Experimental Station of the Research Institute of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture of Azerbaijan.

Being an employee of institute the scientist has carried out research works in the field of pollution of a soil and vegetable cover of the republic by natural and artificial radionuclides (radioisotopes).

In 1980 he defended his thesis for the specialty "Soil" at the Moscow State University, in 1998 - a doctoral thesis on the same specialty in ANAS Institute of Agrochemistry and Soil Sciences Sciences. In 2007 he was elected a corresponding member of ANAS.

Since 1989 M.Abdullaev functioned as senior researcher, head of the group, a leading researcher at the Research Institute of Agriculture, since 1999 held the post of head of the department at the Scientific-Production Center of State Land Cadastre and monitoring.

In 2009, he was elected for competition the head of the Radioecology Laboratory of the Institute of Radiation Problems of ANAS.

In our country and abroad published more than 70 scientific works of the scientist.

M.Abdullaev’s scientific activity covers a wide aspect of soil resources research. So, he conducted research on the distribution and migration of artificial and natural radionuclides in soil-plant system. By applying different rates of fertilizers, he, along with a significant increase in productivity has achieved significant reductions in radionuclide accumulation in the harvest of various crops.

He mapped the distribution of strontium-90 and cesium-137 in soil of Azerbaijan, which are included in the Environmental Atlas of the Republic.

The scientist was awarded the Diploma of the Presidium of ANAS for his merits in the field of soil science and Radiological Sciences in Azerbaijan_

We congratulate the scientist on the occasion of 75th anniversary, wish him long life, robust health and successes in development Azerbaijan science.

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