Malkhaz Abdushelishvili
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'''Malkhaz Abdushelishvili''' ([[November 28]], [[1926]]-[[February 23]], [[1998]]) was a famous [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] scientist, one of the founders of the Georgian scientific school of [[Anthropology]], [[Academician]] of the [[Georgian Academy of Sciences]] (GAS), Meritorious Scholar of Georgia, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor.
He was born in [[1926]], in [[Tbilisi]]. In [[1948]] he graduated from the [[Tbilisi State Medical University]]. He received a PhD degree in [[1952]], and in [[1964]] a degree of the Doctor of Historical Sciences.
Between [[1948]] and [[1998]] Abdushelishvili was a Research Fellow (1948-1952), Senior Research Fellow (1952-1959), and Head of the Department of Anthropology of the [[Institute of History and Ethnology]] of the [[Georgian Academy of Sciences]] (GAS).
From [[1964]] to [[1998]], Abdushelishvili was a Professor of the [[Tbilisi State University]] (TSU).
In [[1993]] he was elected as Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.
Main fields of scientific activity of Professor Abdushelishvili were: anthropology of the population of Georgia and the [[Caucasus]], anthropology of the population of [[India]], [[kranology]] of the population of the Caucasus, etc. He was author about 200 scientific-research works and more than 10 monographs.
He was a Chief Expert of [[UNESCO]] in Anthropology (1964-1998), an Honorary Member of the [[European Anthropological Association]] (1973), and Honorary Member of the Indian Society of Human Genetics (1975).
Malkhaz Abdushelishvili died in [[Tbilisi]] in [[1998]].
==Select bibliography==
* "Anthropology of the population of old and modern Georgia" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1964 (in Russian)
* "Kranology of the population of the old and modern Caucasus" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1966 (in Russian)
* "The genesis of the aboriginal population of the Caucasus in the light of Anthropological data" (a monograph), Tokyo, 1968 (in English)
* "New data of Anthropology of Northern India" (a monograph), Moscow, 1980 (in Russian, English summary)
* "New material about the Anthropology of Western India" (a monograph), Moscow, 1982 (in Russian, English summary)
* "Paleostomatology of Georgia" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1989 (Co-author M. Inashvili. In Georgian, English summary)
* "Methodics of anthropological investigations" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1992 (in Russian, English summary)
==References==
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[[Category:Georgian anthropologists]]
[[Category:Georgian scientists]]
[[Category:Physical anthropologists]]