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How I Became a Pharmacologist

How I Became a Pharmacologist S. V. Anichkov Institute for Experimental Medicine, Leningrad, USSR I was born in St. Petersburg in 1892 and there in 1909 I graduated from school. During my last years in school I took a great interest in biology. Books on zoology and botany as well as books treating general problems of biology (heredity, variabil­ ity, and origin of species) were among my favorites. This interest inspired my decision to enter the biological faculty of8t. Petersburg University. However, I soon began to doubt my decision. To carry on both scientific work and a profession, I decided to obtain higher medical education. There was no medical faculty at Peters­ burg University then so young people who wanted a medical education entered the Military Medical Academy where not only future military but also civil physicians studied medicine. The Military Medical Academy was famous for its former professors: surgeon Pirogov, therapeutist S. P. Botkin, neuropathologist V. M. Bekhterev, physiologist I. M. Setchenov, chemists Zinin and Borodin-such were the names. Borodin was not only a prominent chemist but also a composer who had created the opera Prince Igor. It seemed to me that there I would be able to master my beloved biology. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology Annual Reviews

How I Became a Pharmacologist

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Annual Reviews
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Copyright 1975 Annual Reviews. All rights reserved
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0362-1642
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1545-4304
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10.1146/annurev.pa.15.040175.000245
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1096785
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S. V. Anichkov Institute for Experimental Medicine, Leningrad, USSR I was born in St. Petersburg in 1892 and there in 1909 I graduated from school. During my last years in school I took a great interest in biology. Books on zoology and botany as well as books treating general problems of biology (heredity, variabil­ ity, and origin of species) were among my favorites. This interest inspired my decision to enter the biological faculty of8t. Petersburg University. However, I soon began to doubt my decision. To carry on both scientific work and a profession, I decided to obtain higher medical education. There was no medical faculty at Peters­ burg University then so young people who wanted a medical education entered the Military Medical Academy where not only future military but also civil physicians studied medicine. The Military Medical Academy was famous for its former professors: surgeon Pirogov, therapeutist S. P. Botkin, neuropathologist V. M. Bekhterev, physiologist I. M. Setchenov, chemists Zinin and Borodin-such were the names. Borodin was not only a prominent chemist but also a composer who had created the opera Prince Igor. It seemed to me that there I would be able to master my beloved biology.

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Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology – Annual Reviews

Published: Apr 1, 1975

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