Aleksandr Bogomolets
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| Born | Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bogomolets 24 May 1881 |
| Died | 19 July 1946 (aged 65) |
| Citizenship | Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Novorossiysky University |
| Known for | President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1930–1946) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | pathophysiology |
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bogomolets (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Богомолець; Russian: Александр Александрович Богомолец, romanized: Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bogomolets; 24 May 1881 – 19 July 1946) was a Soviet and Ukrainian pathophysiologist.
His father was the physician and revolutionary Oleksandr Mykhailovych Bogomolets (1850–1935).
He was president of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and director of the Institute of clinical Physiology in Kyiv. His laboratories were located in Georgia, where he had a permanent research unit attached to the Academy of Sciences (1937). According to Zhores Medvedev, this was made possible by Stalin, who wanted members of the Experimental Institute to study the extension of life expectancy.[1] He developed antireticular cytotoxic serum.[2] In 1938, in Kyiv, Oleksandr Bogomolets convened the world’s first scientific conference on aging and longevity.[3][4]
Awards
[edit]- Hero of Socialist Labour (4 February 1944) – for outstanding achievements in science, to create valuable products for the treatment of wounds and bone fractures[5]
- Two Orders of Lenin
- Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"[citation needed]
- Stalin Prize, 1st class (1941)
Legacy
[edit]- Bogomolets National Medical University (NMU) is a medical school founded in 1841 in Kyiv, Russian Empire by the Russian Tsar Nicolas I. The university is named after Bogomolets.
- Akademika Bohomoltsia Street (lit. 'Academician Bohomolets Street') is a street in Kyiv named after him
Books
[edit]- The Prolongation of Life, by Oleksandr O. Bogomolets. Translated by Peter V. Karpovich, M.D., and Sonia Bleeker, Bogomolets, O. O. (Oleksandr Oleksandrovych), 1881–1946, New York, Essential Books, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc. [1946]
References
[edit]- ^ Medvedev, Zhores A. and Dahrendorf, Ellen (2005) The Unknown Stalin, I.B.Tauris, ISBN 1-85043-980-X
- ^ Ilfeld, Frederic W. (May 1948). "Antireticular Cytotoxic Serum: A Review". J Natl Med Assoc. 40 (3): 116–119. PMC 2616100. PMID 18858684.
- ^ Ilia Stambler (January 2019). "History of Life-Extensionism". Encyclopedia of Biomedical Gerontology: 228–237. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-801238-3.11331-5. ISBN 9780128012383. S2CID 195489019.
- ^ Bogomolets, Alexander A., ed. (1939). Старость. (Труды конференции по проблеме генеза старости и профилактики преждевременного стрения организма) [Old age. (Proceedings of the conference on the problem of the genesis of old age and the prevention of premature abrasion of the body)] (in Russian). Kiev: UkrSSR Academy of Sciences Publishing House. p. 490.
- ^ Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР «О присвоении звания Героя Социалистического Труда академику Богомольцу Александру Александровичу, президенту Украинской Академии наук» от 4 января 1944 года // Ведомости Верховного Совета Союза Советских Социалистических Республик : газета. — 1944. — 13 января (№ 2 (262)). — С. 1
Articles
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- "Alexander Alexandrovich Bogomolets: biography, scientific works, the basics of the theory". en.sodiummedia.com. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
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- 1881 births
- 1946 deaths
- 20th-century Ukrainian scientists
- People from Kievsky Uyezd
- Scientists from Kyiv
- Academicians of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences
- Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
- Full Members of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
- Presidents of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- First convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
- First convocation members of the Soviet of the Union
- Second convocation members of the Soviet of the Union
- Heroes of Socialist Labour
- Recipients of the Stalin Prize
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Biogerontologists
- Life extensionists
- Soviet physiologists
- Ukrainian physiologists