Guram Mchedlidze

Guram Mchedlidze (born September 27, 1931) is a famous Georgian Paleobiologist , Corresponding Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS), Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor.

In 1954 he graduated from the Faculty of Biology of the Tbilisi State University (TSU). Since 1973 he is Professor of this Faculty.

In 1962 Mchedlidze received a PhD degree in Biology, in 1973 a degree of the Doctor of Biological Sciences. In 1983 he was elected as Corresponding Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS).

In 1979-1989 he was a Deputy Director of the Institute of Paleobiology of the GAS. Since 1989 Mchedlidze is a Director of this Institute.

In 1971 he was elected as Fellow of the American Society of Paleontology.

Main fields of scientific activity of Guram Mchedlidze are: a fossil dolphin, Tertiary cetaceans, phylogenesis of cetaceans, ancient mammals, etc. He is author of more than 100 scientific-research works (among them 5 monographs).

Some of main scientific works of Guram Mchedlidze

• "Fosil Cetacea of the Caucasus" (a monograph), Publishing House "Metsniereba", Tbilisi, 1964, 145 pp. (in Russian, Georgian and English summaries)
• "Some general features of the historic development of cetaceans" (a monograph), Publishing House "Metsniereba", 1970, 112 pp. (in Russian, Georgian and English summaries)
• "General features of the brain evolution of some groups of ancient mammals" (a monograph), Publishing House "Metsniereba", Tbilisi, 1986, 130 pp. (in Russian. Co-author: L.K. Gabunia)