Alexander A. Bogomolets (12[24] .05.1881-19.07.1946), Soviet pathophysiologist and public figure, Academician (1932), Vice- President of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1942), Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukranian SSR (1929), Academy of Sciences of the Belarusian SSR (1939) and Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1944), Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR (1944), Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1935), Hero of Socialist Labor (1944).
In 1906 Bogomolets graduated from the Novorossiysk University in Odessa. From 1911-1925 he worked as a professor at Saratov University. From 1925-1931 he worked as a professor of the medical department of the 2nd Moscow University, simultaneously holding the title of Director of the Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (1928-1931).
From 1930 until 1946, Bogomolets was the President of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR; simultaneously director of the Institute of Experimental Biology and Pathology and the Institute of Clinical Physiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (these Institutes now carry his namesake).
Alexander Bogomolets took part in the creation of the Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, which he headed after the death of its first director - Alexander A. Bogdanov (1873-1928). Under the leadership of Bogomolets, a unique method for the preservation of donated blood was developed, which is still used with nearly no fundamental changes. At the same time, Bogomolets and his students established the universal donor nature of the first blood group. Bogomolets continued to lead the Institute until 1931, already being the president of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.
Bogomolets' works are devoted to the most important issues of pathological physiology, endocrinology, autonomic nervous system, doctrines about constitutions and diathesis, oncology, physiology and pathology of connective tissue, and problems of longevity.
He developed an effective method of influencing the connective tissue with anti- reticular cytotoxic serum (ACS), which was used in the war to accelerate the healing of fractures and damaged soft tissues.
He is also responsible for developing a theory explaining the mechanism of action of blood transfusion by colloidoclastic shock (shock from damage to colloids). He was an initiator and leader of blood preservation work as well as a large school of pathophysiologists. He was a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Ukrainian SSR and the Central Executive Committee of the USSR (since 1931).
Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 1st and 2nd convocations. USSR State Prize (1941).
He was awarded 2 Orders of Lenin, 2 other orders, as well as medals.
