Oleksandr Bogomolets | |
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| Born | Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bogomolets 24 May 1881 |
| Died | 19 July 1946(1946-07-19) (aged 65) |
| Citizenship | Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Novorossiysky University |
| Known for | President of theNational Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1930–1946) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | pathophysiology |
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bogomolets (Ukrainian:Олександр Олександрович Богомолець;Russian:Александр Александрович Богомолец,romanized: Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bogomolets; 24 May 1881 – 19 July 1946) was a Soviet and Ukrainianpathophysiologist.
His father was the physician and revolutionary Oleksandr Mykhailovych Bogomolets (1850–1935).
He was president of theNational Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and director of theInstitute of clinical Physiology inKyiv. His laboratories were located in Georgia, where he had a permanent research unit attached to the Academy of Sciences (1937). According toZhores Medvedev, this was made possible by Stalin, who wanted members of the Experimental Institute to study theextension of life expectancy.[1] He developedantireticular cytotoxic serum.[2] In 1938, in Kyiv, Oleksandr Bogomolets convened the world’s first scientific conference on aging and longevity.[3][4]
| Preceded by | President ofNANU 1930–1946 | Succeeded by |
