Aleksandr Volodymyrovych Palladin (russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Палла́дин; uk, Олександр Володимирович Палладін, 10 September 1885 – 6 December 1972) was a Ukrainian biochemist, professor and Soviet academician. He is known for establishing the Palladin Institute of Biochemistry and heading the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the post World War II period. Aleksandr was born in a family of the Russian academician and biochemist Vladimir Palladin and was a student of a Russian

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Ivan Pavlov. After graduating

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in 1908, next year Palladin also studied at Heidelberg University. After that during 1909-1916 he worked in several institutes in Saint Petersburg. In 1916 Palladin became a professor of Novaya Aleksandria Institute of Agrarian Business and Forestry (today Kharkiv National Agrarian University of Dokuchayev) that was relocated from Puławy in Vistula Land (

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) to Kharkiv. Soon after the Red Army recovered the city of Kharkiv from the White Army, in 1921 he became a head of physiological chemistry department of the Kharkiv Medical Institute (today Kharkiv National Medical University) and at the same time staying at the agrarian institute as well for few more years.

External links

Palladin Institute of Biochemistry official website

Aleksandr Palladin
at the Kiev city Wikipedia
Aleksandr Palladin
at the Great Biographic Encyclopedia
Biography
at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

at the Great Soviet Encyclopedia 1885 births 1972 deaths People from Moskovsky Uyezd Russians in Ukraine Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Second convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Third convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Fourth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Fifth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Soviet biochemists Ukrainian biochemists Saint Petersburg State University alumni Heidelberg University alumni Academic staff of Kharkiv National Medical University Academic staff of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Presidents of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Academicians of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences Lenin Prize winners Heroes of Socialist Labour Recipients of the Order of Lenin Burials at Baikove Cemetery {{Ukraine-scientist-stub