Konstantin Ivanovich Skryabin (russian: Константин Иванович Скрябин; – 17 September 1972) was a
Soviet
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scientist
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in the field of
Helminthology,
academician of the
USSR Academy of Sciences (1939),
Russian Academy of Sciences
(in Russian) academician of USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor (1958), winner of Stalin Prize and Lenin Prize. He was a founder of the helminthology school, and an author of landmark books on helminths in Soviet Union.
Life
Konstantin Ivanovich Skryabin was born on in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
. In 1905 he graduated from Dorpat (Tartu) Veterinary Institute. From 1905 to 1911 Skryabin worked as a veterinary physician in Aulie-Ata
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and Shymkent
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. In 1912 to 1914 he was sent on assignment mission to Germany
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, Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
, and France
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. From 1915 to 1917, Skryabin worked as a researcher in the Central Veterinary Laboratory of Saint Petersburg. In 1917 he became a professor of the Parasitology Department of Don Veterinary Institute in Novocherkassk
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. He was a Head of the Department of the Moscow Veterinary Institute (1920-1925) and (1933-1941), and at the same time Head of Helminthology Division of the Central Tropical Institute (1921-1941).
Eponymous taxa
About 40 genera
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were named after Skryabin:
* Skrjabinella
*Skrjabinodentus
*Skrjabinocercella
*Skrjabinoeces
*Skrjabinostrongylus
*Skrjabinobilharzia
*Skrjabinobronema
*Skrjabinocapillaria
*Skrjabinocara
*Skrjabinocerca
*Skrjabinocercella
*Skrjabinocerina
*Skrjabinochona
*Skrjabinochora
*Skrjabinocladorchis
*Skrjabinoclava
*Skrjabinocoelum
*Skrjabinocta
*Skrjabinodendrium
*Skrjabinodera
*Skrjabinodon
*Skrjabinoeces
*Skrjabinofilaria
*Skrjabinolecithum
*Skrjabinomermis
*Skrjabinomerus
*Skrjabinonchus
*Skrjabinoparaksis
*Skrjabinophora
*Skrjabinophyetus
*Skrjabinoplagiorchis
*Skrjabinoporus
*Skrjabinopsolus
*Skrjabinoptera
*Skrjabinorhynchus
*Skrjabinosomum
*Skrjabinostrongylus
*Skrjabinotaenia
*Skrjabinotaurus
*Skrjabinotrema
*Skrjabinovermis
*Skrjabinozoum
References
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1878 births
1972 deaths
Scientists from Saint Petersburg
Zoologists from the Russian Empire
Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Academicians of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences
Academicians of the VASKhNIL
Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Heroes of Socialist Labour
Soviet parasitologists
Soviet zoologists
Foreign members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts