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eplaced by Professor Simonov. He has also been an academician of the
Biochemistry, Physics, and Theoretical Medicine Department of the Ukrainian
academy of sciences since 1969 and a member of the GDR Republic Academy of
Naturalists since 1966. He graduated from the University of Kiev in 1946 and from
the Kiev Medical Institute in 1949. He became Head of the Institute of Animal
Physiology of the University of Kiev in 1956. In 1958, he became Head of the
division of general physiology of the nervous system that he had organized at the
A. A. Bogomolets Institute of Physiology of the Ukrainian AN SSR. Since 1966,
he has been Director of that Institute in Kiev. Established in 1953, the institute does
research on basic and applied problems of physiology. His works have included
work on cellular mechanism of nervous activity. He was the first in Russia to use
microelectrodes in the study of nerve cells. He was awarded the I. P. Pavlov Prize
in 1962. Since 1970, he has been Director of the Experimental Medical Institute in
St. Petersburg. In 1977, he received the I. M. Sechenov Prize for his work. He
was awarded the A. A. Bogomol’ts Prize in Physiology and Theoretical Medicine
in 1987. He is currently a member of the Bureau governing body of the Academy.
(GSE 13, p. 439.)
Natochin, Iurii V., D. Bio. S. Born in 1932. In 1980, he received the L. A. Orbeli
Prize in physiology for his research. Corresponding member of the Physiology
Department since December 1987; Academician in 1993. He is currently a member
of the Bureau governing body of the Physiology Department of the Academy.
Petrovskii, Boris V., D. Med. S. Born in 1908 in Essentuki. Russian surgeon and
public figure and organizer of public health care. He was a candidate member of the
Central Committee of the CPSU. Since 1957, academician of the Clinical Medical
Department of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Academician since 1966. He
graduated from the medical faculty of the First Moscow State University in 1930.
From 1941 to 1944, during WWII, he was Head surgeon of evacuation hospitals at
the front. He was a professor of the subdepartment of general surgery at the Second
Moscow Medical Institute in 1948 and 1949 and of the subdepartment of stationary
surgery at the University of Budapest from 1949 to 1951. Beginning in 1956, he
was Head of the Department of Stationary Surgery at the First Moscow Medical
Institute and since 1963, he has been Director of the Surgery Research Center in
Moscow. In 1965 he was appointed Minister of Public Health of the USSR Since
1977, he has been a board member of the General Assembly of the GKNT. His
work is in the treatment of cancers of the esophagus and congenital and acquired
defects of the heart. Recipient of the State Prize, 1971; Lenin Prize, 1960. (GSE
19, p. 513.)
Roshchevskii, Mikhail P. Corresponding member of the Physiology Department of
the Russian Academy of Sciences and of the Urals Department since December
1987; academician in 1993. He became Chairman of the Komi Scientific Center in
February 1984. He was named a Deputy Chairman of the Urals Department in
August 1988.
Shumakov, Valerii I., D. Med. S. Born in 1931. Academician of the Physiology
Department in 1993. He has been Director of the Transplants and Artificial Organs
Scientific Research Institute in Moscow since 1974. The institute is developing an
artificial heart and other organ and tissue transplants.
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
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