Background
Kassil, Vitaly Grigorievich was born on November 18, 1928 in Moscow. Son of Grigory Naumovich and Evgenya Davidovna (Kholodenko) Kassil.
Kassil, Vitaly Grigorievich was born on November 18, 1928 in Moscow. Son of Grigory Naumovich and Evgenya Davidovna (Kholodenko) Kassil.
Doctor of Medicine, 2d Moscow Medical Institute, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy Medical Sciences, Moscow, 1960. DScis, Pavlov Institute Physiology, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences, 1969.
Professor (honorary), Pavlov Institute Physiology, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences, 1992.
Physician, Republican Psychiatric Hospital, Kara-Uzyak, Kazakhstan, 1952-1956; junior scientist, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy Sciences, Moscow, 1956-1961; junior scientist, Pavlov Institute Physiology, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy Sciences, Leningrad, St. Petersburg, 1961-1965; senior scientist, Pavlov Institute Physiology, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy Sciences, Leningrad, St. Petersburg, 1965-1973; head of laboratory ontogeny of higher nervous activity, Pavlov Institute Physiology, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy Sciences, Leningrad, St. Petersburg, since 1973.
Member Russian Academy Natural Sciences, International Academy Informatization, International Brain Research Organization, International Society Developmental Neurosci.
Married Jeannette Gdalyevna Nigelberg, March 25, 1965. Children: Sergey, Maria.