Background
LUNIN, Nikolay was born on February 1, 1853 in Dorpat (now Tartu, Est Soviet Socialist Republic). Son of a merchant.
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Nikolay Ivanovich LUNIN
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1878 graduate Medical Faculty, Dorpat University.
Career
1880 defended doctor’s thesis on the role of inorganic salts in animal fodder. From 1882 worked as pediatrician in Saint St. Petersburg (Leningrad). Provided first experimental proof that more than protein, fat, sugar, salts and water is needed to maintain life and demonstrated that, apart from casein, fat, lactose and salts, milk contains other vital substances (named “vitamins” by K. Funk in 1912).
Wrote over 40 works on pediatrics and dietetics.
Religion
Religious edicts impose irrational rules on people’s behaviour.
Views
Strong communist party can create a new and better society with neither rich nor poor.
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Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics