Oleksandr Bogomoletz

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bogomoletz Олекса́ндр Олекса́ндрович Богомо́лець
Born	24 May 1881 Lukyanka, Kiev
Died	19 July 1946(1946-07-19) (aged 65) Kiev
Citizenship	Soviet Union
Nationality	Ukrainian
Fields	pathophysiology
Alma mater	Novorossiysky University
Known for	President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1930-1946)

Oleksandr Oleksandrovich Bogomoletz or Bogomolets (Олекса́ндр Олекса́ндрович Богомо́лець in Ukrainian;^[1] 1881-1946) was a famous Ukrainian physiologist. He was president of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and director of the Institute of Physiology in Kiev. His laboratories were located in Abkhazia and Georgia, where he had a permanent research unit attached to the Academy of Sciences (1937). This was made possible by Stalin, who wanted members of the Experimental Institute to study the extension of life expectancy.^[2]

Biography

Bogomoletz was born in Lukyanovskaya Prison. His mother was infected with tuberculosis, which she passed onto Bogomoletz after his birth. Despite medical treatment throughout his life, he died at 60 of pneumothorax – a consequence of TB he had in childhood.

He studied medicine at the Novorosiisk University of Odessa, receiving a PhD in 1906. He was appointed a professor in Saratow University in 1911/1913 and he remained there until 1925. In 1925 he relocated to the University of Moscow where he became the chair of the pathology department until 1931. After his tenure at the University of Moscow, he founded the Institute of Experimental Biology and Pathology and the Institute of Experimental Clinical Physiology at the Ukrainian Academy of Science in Kiev. He was a member of the Ukrainian Academy of science since 1929.

He prepared a serum named after him (Bogomoletz serum) which was intended to prolong life up to 140 years. He made such promises to receive continued financial support of his work from Joseph Stalin.

His great-grand daughter Olga Bogomoletz-Sheremetyeva was head of the Permanent Committee for Public Health and Social Protection of the Kiev City Council in 2007.^[3] The park area surrounding his residence is called Bogomoltsa square. The Bogomoletz National Medical University Of Ukraine and the "O.O. Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology", both in Kiev, have been named after him.

Books

• The prolongation of life, by Alexander A. Bogomolets. Translated by Peter V. Karpovich, M.D., and Sonia Bleeker, Bogomolets, O. O. (Oleksandr Oleksandrovych), 1881-1946, New York, Essential Books, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, inc. [1946]

Preceded by Danylo Zabolotny

President of NANU 1946–1962

Succeeded by Oleksandr Palladin

References

1. ^ Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Богомо́лец (Alexandr Aleksandrovich Bogomoletz) in Russian
2. ^ The Unknown Stalin By Zhores A. Medvedev, Ellen Dahrendorf, Published by I.B.Tauris, 2005 ISBN 185043980X, 9781850439806
3. ^ Yelena Smirnova, Ukraine, Daily newspaper Fakty, published on 19 May, 2007

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Persondata
Name	Bogomoletz, Oleksandr
Alternative names	O.O. Bogomolets
Short description
Date of birth	24 May 1881
Place of birth	Lukyanka, Kiev
Date of death	19 July 1946
Place of death	Kiev