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Physiology Department
Members, by Decade of
Assignment
No. of Persons
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
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Figure 25
1960s 1970s 1980s
Compiled from: CR 80-13202, pp. 159-160.
Academicians--age and schools: The average age of the ten academicians of the
department whose birth dates are known was 68 in 1991. Three were born before
1918. Even with these three discounted the average age of the remaining eight was
64. The institutions graduating seven of the 12 academicians of this department are
known and include: the I. P. Pavlov 1st Leningrad Medical Institute, the Gorkiy
Medical Institute, the Kiev Medical Institute, the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute, the
University of Kiev, the Moscow State University, and the Dnepropetrovsk Medical
Institute. One woman is among the twelve academicians.
Corresponding Members age and schools: Eleven of the 16 corresponding birth
dates are known, and their average age in 1991 was 67. Two were in their 80s, and
the youngest was 46. Only four institutions are known from which five of the 16
corresponding members graduated. As in the case of the academicians, however, of
those whose institutions are known the largest majority of them graduated from
medical schools with a second largest number graduating from biology departments
of the universities.
(1997 update)
Bureau of the Department
Academician-- secretary
Academician Pavel V. Simonov, tel.938-17-72
Simonov, Pavel V., D. Med. S. Born in 1926. Academician secretary to the Physiology
Department of the Academy since October 1988. Corresponding member of the
Physiology Department of the Academy since 1981; academician since 1987. From
1961 to 1983 he was Deputy Director and since 1983, he has been Director of the
Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology Institute in Moscow that was
created in 1961 to research the general, comparative, and pathological physiology
of the nervous system--including the physiology and morphology of Pavlovian
conditioning and inhibition. The institute is subordinate to the Academy's
Physiology Department. Since 1969, he has been head of the Physiology of the
Emotions Laboratory of that Institute. In 1979, he was awarded the I. P. Pavlov
Prize in anatomy and physiology for his contributions to Russian Physiology.
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