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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

Last post

University of Tbilisi Professor of Linguistics and Oriental Studies

Georgian National Academy of Sciences President

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