Simon Elievich Shnol | |
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 Shnoll in 2007 | |
| Born | (1930-03-21)21 March 1930 |
| Died | 11 September 2021(2021-09-11) (aged 91) |
| Education | Doctor of Science(1970) |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biochemistry,Biophysics |
| Institutions | Moscow State University |
| Thesis | Spontaneous reversible changes ("conformational vibrations") of preparations of muscle proteins |
| Doctoral students | Anatol Zhabotinsky |
Simon El'evich Shnol (Russian:Симон Эльевич Шноль; 21 March 1930 – 11 September 2021[1][2]) was abiophysicist, and a historian ofSoviet science. He was a professor atPhysics Department ofMoscow State University and a member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. His fields of interest were theoscillatory processes in biology, the theory ofevolution,chronobiology, and the history of science. He had mentored many successful scientists, includingAnatoly Zhabotinsky.
Simon Shnoll was born in Moscow in 1930. His father was Eli Gershevich Shnol, a linguist and philosopher. His mother was Faina Yakovlevna Yudovich, a teacher of Russian language and literature. In 1946, he was enrolled toMoscow State University (MSU). After graduation, he was engaged in developing new methods for usingradioactive isotopes in medicine, in the Central Institute for Improvement of Medicine in Moscow, where he worked until 1959. In 1960 he went to work atMSU. Since 1975 he taught as a Professor of Biophysics. Since 1963, he was the head of Laboratory of Physical Biochemistry at the Institute of Biophysics inPushchino. The first scientific papers were devoted toATPases and the use of radioactive isotopes in experimental and clinical studies. He was married and has a son,Alexey Kondrashov.
From 1954 to 1957, Shnoll demonstrated a high probability ofoscillatory modes in biochemical reactions.Study of chemical oscillating reactions conducted under his direction gained prominence to his graduate studentAnatoly Zhabotinsky, who investigated in detail the reaction previously discovered byBoris Belousov. He later worked in the fields ofChronobiology andAstrobiology.
He was the author of over 200 scientific papers. He was also author of the books "Physico-chemical factors of biological evolution" (1979) and "Heroes, villains, and conformists of Russian Science" (2001).[3] He mentored 70 successfulPhD students. A minor planet «Shnollia» was named after him.
During many years, Simon Shnoll was a jury chairman on Biology Olympiads conducted atMoscow State University. He was a member of editorial board of Russian journal "Priroda" ("Nature").
