Alexei Abrikosov

Abstract

ALEXEI ABRIKOSOV has been awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labour by the Government of the U.S.S.R. Prof. Abrikosov has just celebrated his seventieth birthday. He is a leading specialist in pathological anatomy. He has been successful in combining a theoretical subject with the practical work of a clinic, and was the founder of a new anatomico-clinical branch of pathological anatomy. At the very beginning of his career, Prof. Abrikosov studied the relationships between disease-bearing micro-organisms and the protective powers which the human organism possesses. Allergy, one of the complex problems which arise from this, naturally attracted his attention. He has carried out extensive research on the morphology of the vegetative nervous system and its pathological condition. Applying methods of pathological anatomy, he has made a detailed study of the morphological changes which take place in the tissue as a result of metabolic disorders, avitaminosis and hypo-vitaminosis. For many years Prof. Abrikosov was at the Botkin Hospital, one of the largest in Moscow, and for twenty-five years has held the chair of pathological anatomy at the First Moscow Medical Institute. He was awarded a Stalin Prize for the two volumes already published of a work on pathological anatomy. Prof. Abrikosov still continues active research and teaching.