Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bogomolets (; ; 24 May 1881 – 19 July 1946) was a Soviet and Ukrainian pathophysiologist.
His father was the physician and revolutionary Oleksandr Mykhailovych Bogomolets (1850–1935).
He was president of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and director of the Institute of clinical Physiology in Kyiv. In 1911-1925 he work in Saratov University, 1925–1931 in Moscow University. His laboratories were located in Georgia, where he had a permanent research unit attached to the Academy of Sciences (1937). According to Zhores Medvedev, this was made possible by Stalin, who wanted members of the Experimental Institute to study the extension of life expectancy.Medvedev, Zhores A. and Dahrendorf, Ellen (2005) The Unknown Stalin, I.B.Tauris, He developed antireticular cytotoxic serum. In 1938, in Kyiv, Oleksandr Bogomolets convened the world's first scientific conference on aging and longevity.
Awards Hero of Socialist Labour (4 February 1944) – for outstanding achievements in science, to create valuable products for the treatment of wounds and bone fracturesУказ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР «О присвоении звания Героя Социалистического Труда академику Богомольцу Александру Александровичу, президенту Украинской Академии наук» от 4 января 1944 года // Ведомости Верховного Совета Союза Советских Социалистических Республик : газета. — 1944. — 13 января (№ 2 (262)). — С. 1 Two Orders of Lenin Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class Order of the Red Banner of Labour Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Stalin Prize, 1st class (1941)
Legacy Bogomolets National Medical University (NMU) is a medical school founded in 1841 in Kyiv, Russian Empire by the Russian Tsar Nicolas I. The university is named after Bogomolets. Akademika Bohomoltsia Street () is a street in Kyiv named after him
Books The Prolongation of Life, by Oleksandr O. Bogomolets. Translated by Peter V. Karpovich, M.D., and Sonia Bleeker, Bogomolets, O. O. (Oleksandr Oleksandrovych), 1881–1946, New York, Essential Books, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc.
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