English Names
Abrikosov, Alexei Ivanovich
Original Names
Абрикосов, Алексей Иванович
Other Names
Abrikosow/ff, Alexej Iwanowitsch (German)
Date, Country, and City of Birth
January 6 (by the then valid calendar) 18, 1875, Moscow, Russia
Date, Country, and City of Death
April 9, 1955, Moscow, Russia
History of Life
Abrikosov was born as grandson of the owner of Russia’s oldest confectionery fabric (founded in 1804, today under the label Babayevsk). From 1886 to 1894, he visited the private gymnasium of F. I. Kreyman, which was considered being one of the best ones in Moscow. The curriculum was of a classical, Western Europe-oriented type. After having finished the gymnasium, Abrikosov studied medicine at Moscow University. Among his teachers were the anatomist Dmitri N. Zernov (1843–1917) and the physiologist Ivan M. Sechenov (1829–1905), after whom today’s First Moscow State Medical University (and its predecessors) is named. Other teachers included the organic chemist Nicolay D....
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Books and Publications
Abrikosov, A. (1904). О первых анатомических изменениях в лёгких при начале лёгочного туберкулёза [On the first anatomical changes in the lungs in the beginning of lung tuberculosis]. Dissertation, Moscow.
Abrikosoff, A. (1926). Über Myome ausgehend von der quergestreiften willkuerlichen Muskulatur [On myomata originating from the fasciated voluntary musculature]. Virchows Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medizin, 260, 215–223. [Description of “myoblastomyoma”/ granular cell tumor]
Abrikosov, A. (1947). Частная патологическая анатомия [Surgical pathological anatomy] (part 1–3) Moscow-Leningrad.
Abrikosov, A. (1949). Основы общей патологической анатомии [Basics of general pathological anatomy] (9th ed.) Moscow.
Abrikosov, A. (1950). Основы частной патологической анатомии [Basics of surgical pathological anatomy]. (4th ed.) Moscow.
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Sandeck, H.P. (2017). Abrikosov, Alexei Ivanovich (1875–1955). In: van den Tweel, J.G. (eds) Pioneers in Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41995-4_3907
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