Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shmuk (Russian: Александр Александрович Шмук) (9 November [O.S.
He studied the biochemistry of tobacco and won (in 1942) the Stalin Prize for his work deriving nicotine, citric acid, and malic acid from low-grade tobacco (makhorka).
[1] In 1935 he became a member of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the Soviet Union.
He finished his career at the Soviet Academy of Science's Institute of Biochemistry.
USSR, 2 (1940) Shmuk A., Smirnov A., Ilyin G. "Formation of nicotine in plants grafted on tobacco" CR (Doklady) Acad.