Background
BOGOMOLETS, Aleksandr was born on May 24, 1881 in Luk’yanov Prison, Kiev, where his mother was serving a sentence for revol activities.
Pathophysiologist and health service official
BOGOMOLETS, Aleksandr was born on May 24, 1881 in Luk’yanov Prison, Kiev, where his mother was serving a sentence for revol activities.
1906 graduate Med Faculty, Novorossiysk University, Odessa.
After graduate assistant professor, Med Faculty, Novorossiysk University. 1909 in St. Petersburg defended doctor’s thesis K voprosu o mikroskopicheskom stroyenii i fiziologicheskom znachenii nadpochechnykh zhelez v zdorovom i bol’nom organizme (The Microscopic Structure and Physiological Significance of the Suprarenal Glands in the Healthy and Diseased Organism). From 1909 associate professor, Chair of General Pathology, Novorossiysk University.
For a time continued postgraduate studies at Laboratory of Experimental Pathology, Sorbonne. From 1911 professor. Chair of General Pathology, Saratov University, where he established a pathophysiological laboratory which became an influential center of his school of pathophysiology. 1924 managed to get pathophysiology accepted as a separate discipline at all Soviet university.
From 1925 professor, Chair of Pathological Physiology, 2nd Moscow State University, now Pirogov 2nd Moscow Med Institute. 1926 co-founder, 1928-1931 director, 1931 until death consultant and sci director, Centr Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, USSR Ministry of Health, Moscow. 1931 moved to Kiev; from 1931 founder-director Institute of Experimental Biology and Institute of Clinical Physiology, Ukraine Academy of Sciences, both of which now bear his name.
During World War 2 directed important research work. Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1942 and 1946 convocations. Engaged in a wide range of medical research, including pathological physiology, endocrinology, the vegetal nervous system, the human constitution, diathesis, immunity, anaphylaxis, experimental oncology, hematology, blood transfusion, the prolongation of life, neuromuscular fatigue, blood circulation, etc.
1925 produced antireticular cytotoxic serum from animals immunized with cell elements of the spleen and spine, which in small doses stimulates the function of the connective tissue. During World War 2 this serum was used in Soviet hospitals to treat ulcerous diseases and to accelerate wound healing: established that the connective tissue also has trophic, plastic and antilumoral functions. Wrote numerous works, including many monographs:.
Religion is always aggressive against any new scientific ideas.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member from 1932, vicepres from 1942, USSR Academy of Sciences. Member from 1929, president from 1930, Ukraine Academy of Sciences. Member, USSR Academy of Med Sciences from 1944.
Member, Belorussian Academy of Sciences from 1939. Honorary member, Geo Academy of Sciences from 1944.