Aleksandr Bogomolets

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

Oleksandr Bogomolets
Born
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bogomolets

24 May 1881
Kyiv, Russian Empire
Died19 July 1946(1946-07-19) (aged 65)
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
CitizenshipSoviet Union
Alma materNovorossiysky University
Known forPresident of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1930–1946)
Scientific career
Fieldspathophysiology

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]

Honours and awards

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.

Books
  • 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
  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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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

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