Education
1906 graduate Natural Sciences Department, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, Saint St. Petersburg University.
1906 graduate Natural Sciences Department, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, Saint St. Petersburg University.
After graduate worked under North. Ye. Vvedenskiy, Chair of Animal Physiology, Saint St. Petersburg University. 1911 defended master’s thesis on dependence of cortical motor effects on secondary central influences.
1919 co-iounded Workers’ Faculty, Petrograd University. From 1920 head, Physiological Laboratory, Peterhof Institute of Natural Sciences. 1922-1942 held chair vacated by Vvedenskiy’s death.
1930 co-founded Chair of Labor Physiology, Leningrad University. 1930-1938 president, Leningrad Social of Natural Scientists. 1932-1935 correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
1935 founded Physiological Institute, Leningrad University. 1937 founded Electrophysiological Laboratory, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. In the course of research along lines begun by 1-M.Sechenov and North.Yc.Vvcdenskiy discovered one of basic principles of nervous activity which he called the “dominant”.
Also did research on lability, fatigue, excitation and inhibition. Approached physiology from materialistic viewpoint and opposed idealistic treatment of certain physiological phenomena.
There is no solid or tangible evidence for God nor a logical argument for God. The existence of God is taken on faith and not by evidence.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1935.