Simon Shnoll
Simon Elievich Shnol | |
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Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | |
| Died | 11 September 2021 (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 (
Anatoly Zhabotinsky
.
Biography
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 to
radioactive isotopes in medicine, in the Central Institute for Improvement of Medicine in Moscow, where he worked until 1959. In 1960 he went to work at MSU. 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 in Pushchino. The first scientific papers were devoted to ATPases and the use of radioactive isotopes in experimental and clinical studies. He was married and has a son, Alexey Kondrashov
.
Research
From 1954 to 1957, Shnoll demonstrated a high probability of
Boris Belousov. He later worked in the fields of Chronobiology and Astrobiology
.
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).Shnollia» was named after him.
During many years, Simon Shnoll was a jury chairman on Biology Olympiads conducted at Moscow State University. He was a member of editorial board of Russian journal "Priroda" ("Nature").
Selected publications
- S. Shnoll Physico-chemical factors of biological evolution. - Moscow: Nauka, 1979. - 263.
- S. Shnoll Cosmophysical factors in random processes . - Stockholm (Sweden): Svenska fysikarkivat, 2009. - 388. - ISBN 978-91-85917-06-8
See also
References
- ^ Умер известный ученый и популяризатор науки Симон Шноль (in Russian)
- ^ Памяти Симона Шноля (in Russian)
- ^ WorldCat author page
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