Andrei Nikolaevich Magnitsky ( 1891 - 1951 ) - Soviet physiologist , academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (1950).
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| Alma mater | Moscow University (1918) , Tomsk State University (1921) |
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Biography
A.N. Magnitsky was born in 1891 in Yekaterinburg (according to other sources in Moscow). In 1918 he graduated from the Natural Department of Moscow University , and in 1921 - from the Faculty of Medicine of Tomsk State University . As a student at Tomsk State University, from 1920 he conducted scientific and pedagogical work. He worked in the laboratories of A. A. Kulyabko and A. A. Ukhtomsky. From 1926 to 1934, he served as head of the department of neuromuscular physiology at the Institute of Occupational Health and Occupational Diseases in Moscow. In 1934 he went to work at VIEM , where he founded and headed the electrophysiological laboratory, at the same time he worked in the departments of physiology of the 3rd (1933-1941), 1st (1944-49) medical institutes and the Moscow Pedagogical Institute named after V. I Lenin (1949-51). He lived and worked in Moscow, first in a residential building at 28 Malaya Ordynka (the residential building was demolished in the late 1920s), then for the rest of his life at 19 Ulyanovskaya Street (a 5-story brick residential building built in 1903; now - acting).
He died on December 28, 1951 in Moscow. He was buried in the 23rd section of the Vvedensky cemetery .
Scientific work
The main scientific works are devoted to the study of the mechanism of peripheral and central inhibition.
Literature
- 1984 - Biologists. Biographical reference
Links
- Andrey Magnitsky on the Personality website .
- Andrey Magnitsky on the Face of Russia website (inaccessible link) .
- Employees of VIEM in Tomsk evacuation .