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Academician Thomas Gamkrelidze FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1979
Year of birth
1929
Year of death
2021
Subjects
Linguistics
Sections
Linguistics and Philology

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University of Tbilisi Professor of Linguistics and Oriental Studies

Georgian National Academy of Sciences President

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