Aleksandr Bogomolets

Alexander Alexandrovich Bogomolets (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Богомо́лец, Ukrainian: Олекса́ндр Олекса́ндрович Богомо́лець/Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bohomolets; 24 May 1881 – 19 July 1946) was a Ukrainian pathophysiologist.

Alexander Alexandrovich Bogomolets
Born	24 May 1881 Kiev, Russian Empire
Died	19 July 1946 (aged 65) Kiev, Soviet Union
Citizenship	Soviet Union
Alma mater	Novorossiysky University
Known for	President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1930–1946)
Scientific career
Fields	pathophysiology

His father was the physician and revolutionary Alexander M. Bogomolets (1850–1935).

He was president of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and director of the Institute of clinical Physiology in Kiev. 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]

Honours and awards

• Hero of Socialist Labour (4 February 1944) – for outstanding achievements in science, to create valuable products for the treatment of wounds and bone fractures
• 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"

Books

• The Prolongation of Life, by Alexander A. 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

1. Medvedev, Zhores A. and Dahrendorf, Ellen (2005) The Unknown Stalin, I.B.Tauris, ISBN 1-85043-980-X
2. Ilfeld, Frederic W. (May 1948). "Antireticular Cytotoxic Serum: A Review". J Natl Med Assoc. 40 (3): 116–119. PMC 2616100. PMID 18858684.

External links

• Media related to Oleksandr Bogomoletz at Wikimedia Commons