Avlipi Zurabashvili
Avlipi Zurabashvili | |
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Born | , Signagi district, Georgia | 15 February 1902
Died | 15 August 1994 | (aged 92)
Nationality | Georgian |
Alma mater | Tbilisi State University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Psychiatry Neuromorphology |
Institutions | Tbilisi State Medical University |
Avlipi Zurabashvili (Georgian: ავლიპი ზურაბაშვილი; February 15, 1902 – August 15, 1994) was a prominent Georgian psychiatrist and neuromorphologist. Doctor of Medicine (1937), professor (1942), member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (1955), members of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (1960).[1] Is one of the pioneer researchers in Georgia into the ontogeny of the human CNS.
Biography[]
Avlipi Zurabashvili was born on 15th February 1902 in the village of , Signagi district, Georgia. In 1920 he finished the , and in 1927 the medical faculty of Tbilisi State University. In 1927–1930 he served as an intern, and later assistant, at the chair of psychiatry of the same University. Between 1930 and 1938 Zurabashvili was post-graduate, and later senior researcher, at the and the Bekhterev Psychoneurological Institute in Leningrad.[2]
Zurabashvili is the author of basic studies in the fine structure of the brain, the reversibility of nervous cell lesions, , personology and that have received international recognition. He is the founder of the school of Georgian psychiatrist, widely known in this country and heyond its borders. Zurabashvili has 400 studies to his credit, published in Georgian, Russian, French, English, German, Italian, and other languages, including 22 monographs. Among his numerous pupils 80 are candidates and 40 doctors of science, as well as professors and members of scientific academies.[3][4]
It should be emphasized that Zurabashvili initiated a special line of research in neuromorphology, termed «» and «», and in 1947 he published, for the first time, a generalizing study: The Synapses (in Russian).[3]
External links[]
- Avlipi Zurabashvili on YouTube (Documentary film in Georgian)
- Avlipi Zurabashvili on YouTube (in Georgian)
References[]
- ^ Babunashvili Z., Nozadze T., 1994. Patriots’ afterlife, Didube Pantheon, Tbilisi, p. 158 (In Georgian).
- ^ Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, Volume 4, p. 544, Tbilisi, 1979
- ^ Jump up to: a b Baghaturia N., Duduchava I., (1984). Avlipi Zurabashvili. Bibliography. Tbilisi, pp. 5-146.
- ^ Great Medical Encyclopedia, 3rd edition (1978). Ed. Petrovsky B.V. Volume 8.
- 1902 births
- 1994 deaths
- Academicians of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Burials at Didube Pantheon
- Psychiatrists from Georgia (country)
- Tbilisi State University alumni