Education
Moscow State University.
Moscow State University.
He is also well known for his transplantation of the heads of dogs. He conducted his dog head transplants during the 1950s, resulting in two-headed dogs, and this ultimately led to the head transplants in monkeys by Doctor Robert White, who was inspired by Demikhov"s work. Demikhov coined the word transplantology, and his 1960 monograph “Experimental transplantation of vital organs”, for which he received his doctoral degree, later published in 1962 in New York, Berlin and Madrid, became the world’s first monograph on transplantology, and was for a long time the only monograph in the field of transplantation of organs and tissues.
Christiaan Barnard, who performed the world"s first heart transplant operation from one person to another person in 1967, twice visited Demikhov"s laboratory in 1960 and 1963, and considered Demikhov his teacher.
The Russian documentary "Experiments in the Revival of Organisms" depicts similar experiments carried out in the Soviet Union. 1937 – world"s first artificial heart.
Film of this surgery appears in "Louisiana rabbia" (Anger), a 1959 film in which Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovannino Guareschi separately present hour-long episodes of their opposing political positions. The surgery segment is in the second part by Guareschi who vigorously condemns lieutenant
Psychedelic rock musician Roky Erickson has a song called "Two Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer)" which is about Demikhov"s head transplant experiments.
MTV2 uses the two-headed dog experiment as its logo.