Creators of knowledge: Laboratory of Chemotaxonomy, its founder and research scientists

The paper is devoted to the main stages in the formation of the laboratory of plant chemotaxonomy, created at the Institute of Biologically Active Substances, newly formed in 1964, Far Eastern Branch of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, renamed in 1972 into the Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry. The biography of the founder and head of the laboratory, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Petr Grigorievich Gorovoy, the scientific path of the laboratory staff is presented, the main directions of research are described, and the most important results of the work are briefly outlined.