Muhiba Yakubova

{{short description|Tajikistani biologist}}

{{Distinguish|Munira Yaqubova}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Muhiba Yakubova

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|01|22}}

| birth_place = Bukhara, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union

| nationality = Tajikistani

| fields =Biology

| workplaces =Tajik Academy of Sciences

| alma_mater =Tajik National University

| spouse =

}}

Muhiba Muhsinovna Yakubova ({{langx|tg|Мухиба Мухсиновна Якубова}}) (born January 22, 1937) is a Tajikistani biologist.

A native of Bukhara, Yakubova graduated from Tajikistan State University in 1959. From 1961 until 1968 she was a Scientific Worker in the Physiology and Biology of Plants Institute of the Tajikistan Academy of Sciences; during this time, in 1967, she joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 1968 to 1973 she was an assistant professor in the Department of Plant Physiology, and in 1974 she became head of the Department of Biochemistry at Tajikistan State University. She received a doctorate in biology in 1984, becoming a professor two years later. Her preferred area of research is the interaction of biochemical agents, and involves the study of photosynthesis. Yakubova was named a Distinguished Educator of Tajikistan in 1976.{{cite web|url=http://fayllar.org/p-rominent-t-ajik-f-igures-of-the.html?page=43|title=Iraj Bashiri – Prominent tajik figures of the|website=fayllar.org|accessdate=12 November 2017|archive-date=29 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729141910/https://fayllar.org/p-rominent-t-ajik-f-igures-of-the.html?page=43|url-status=dead}} During her career she has also served as president of the Association of Women of Science of Tajikistan{{cite book|author=United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific|title=Women's Organizations and Their Use of Information and Communication Technologies in the Caucasus and Central Asia Region: An Exploratory Assessment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O5f-L2VrRd0C&pg=PA139|year=2001|publisher=United Nations Publications|isbn=978-92-1-120059-1|pages=139–}}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and as chief editor of the Journal of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan.{{cite web|url=http://journals.anrt.tj/obmn_redcol_en.php|title=News of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan. Department of Biological and Medical Sciences|website=journals.anrt.tj|accessdate=12 November 2017}} She has received numerous awards, both from Tajikistan and from other nations, during her career,{{cite web|url=http://anrt.tj/ru/prezidium-an-rt/rukovodstvo-an-rt/vitse-prezidenty-an-rt|title=Вице-президенты АН РТ|website=anrt.tj|accessdate=12 November 2017}} and has worked to advance the position of women in Tajikistan's scientific community.{{cite web|url=http://www.asia-israel.co.il/%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BA-%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%B0-%D0%AF%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0.html|title=Asia-Israel – Азия-Израиль – Информационный портал Бухарских Евреев – Академик Мухиба Якубова|website=www.asia-israel.co.il|accessdate=12 November 2017|archive-date=8 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408021833/http://www.asia-israel.co.il/%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BA-%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%B0-%D0%AF%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0.html|url-status=dead}} In 2007 she was elected an Academician of the Tajikistan Academy of Sciences.{{cite web|url=http://asiaplustj.info/ru/news/life/person/20130612/akademik-mukhiba-yakubova-postizhenie-tain-zelenogo-lista|title=Академик Мухиба Якубова: постижение тайн зеленого листа – Новости Таджикистана ASIA-Plus|publisher=ASIA-plus|accessdate=12 November 2017}}