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'''Guram I. Mchedlidze''' (born [[September 27]], [[1931]]) is a famous [[Republic of Georgia|Georgian]] [[Paleobiologist]], Corresponding Member of the [[Georgian Academy of Sciences by Levan Urushadze|Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS)]], Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor.

In [[1954]] he graduated from the Faculty of Biology of the [[Tbilisi State University by Levan Urushadze|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 Honorary Member 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 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)