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ANICHKOV, Nikolay was born on November 3, 1885.
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Nikolay Nikolayevich ANICHKOV
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Nikolay ANICHKOV, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Pathologist. professor from 1919; Doctor of Medical from 1912; Honorary Doctor, Medical Faculty, Humboldt University, East Berlin, from 1960. Stalin Prize (1942); Mechnikov Prize (1952); two Orders of Lenin; Order of the Red Banner; Order of the Red Banner of Labor; Order of the Fatherland War, 1st Class; Order of the Red Star; medals.
Education
1909 graduated St. Petersburg Military Medicine Academy, and remained there until 1912 to specialize in pathological anatomy.
Career
Until 1912 specialized in pathological anatomy at Saint St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy. 1912 defended doctor’s thesis and sent on sci assignment to Germany. 1913-1914 postgraduate studies in Germany at laboratories of Aschoff, Chiari and others
From 1914 army physician. 1916-1919 lecturer. Department of Pathological Anatomy, Petrograd Military Medical Academy. 1919-1939 head, Department of General Pathology, 1939-1946 head, Department of Pathological Anatomy, above academic
1920-1964 head, Department of Pathological Anatomy, Institute of Experimental Medical, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences, Leningrad. 1946-1954 president, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences. Formed Leningrad school of pathologists.
Member, Learned Medical Council, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Ministry of Health. Editor and co-ed of many medical publ, including Soviet encyclopedias, journal Arkhiv patologii and multi-volume Opyt sovetskoy meditsiny v Velikoy Otechestvennoy voyne 1941-1945 gg. (Soviet Medical Experience in the 1941-1945 Great Fatherland War).
Member, ed council, journal Patologicheskaya fiziologiya i eksperimental’nayu terapiya. Member, sci editorial board, international journal ’’Living Conditions and Health”. Deputy Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet of 1946 convocation.
Research on vascular pathology (atherosclerosis, atheromatosis, hypertonia), heart diseases, infections, morphology of wound healing, the reticuloendothelial system, interrelation of centers of the medulla oblongata, pattern of functioned disorders in connection with anemia of the brain, battle traumas, et cetera 1912 described in detail inflammatory lesions in the myocardium of rabbits and was first to reveal unusual cells with chromatin in an infiltrate (Anichkov’s myocytes). 1913 in conjunction with South.S. Khalatov, described experimental model of atherosclerosis and proved that hypercholesterolemia arising from a diet rich in cholesterol causes atherosclerosis in rabbits as a result of infiltration of the intima of the aorta and the arteries by lipoids.
With pupils later ascertained role of various factors determining atherosclerotic vascular lesions (nervous and hormonal effects, blood supply of the vascular wall, condition of connective tissue, etc). Works on atherosclerosis and the reticuloendothelial system earned him worldwide reputation. In conjunction with his pupils, gave classic description of wound healing in man and was first to ciscribe role of fat cell in course of wound process.
Created new trend in study of infectious processes and developed theory of autoinfection. With pupils, also developed and made detailed study of models of experimental appendicitis and pleurisy.
Religion
There is no conclusive logical argument for the existence of God. His existence is continuously debated.
Views
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Membership
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1939. Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences from 1944. Correspondent member, East German Academy of Sciences from 1963.
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Nationality
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics
Awards
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Stalin Prize (1942); Mechnikov Prize (1952). Two Orders of Lenin; Order of the Red Banner. Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Order of the Fatherland War, 1st Class. Order of the Red Star.Stalin Prize (1942); Mechnikov Prize (1952). Two Orders of Lenin; Order of the Red Banner. Order of the Red Banner of Labor.
Order of the Fatherland War, 1st Class. Order of the Red Star.