V.A. engelhardt and V.S. Ilyin: their role in the development of biochemical science in the second half of the XX century

Abstract

The paper is devoted to two well known scientists V.A. Engelhardt and V.S. Ilyin, who were at the head of department of biochemistry, Institute of Experimental Medicine, one from 1944 to 1952, the other from 1952 to 1976. Presented are their most famous investigations, which enriched Russian and the world science. Both had to work in very hard period for our country and science, both being a model of high moral and so they wun victory.