| Professor Eugen Cerkovnikov (1904-1985): the founder of the Chemical and Biochemical Institute of the Rijeka University School of Medicine. | |
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PMID: 20102252 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Professor Eugen Cerkovnikov, PhD (Kamenska, Russia, 1904- Rijeka, Croatia 1985) graduated in chemical technology from the Faculty of Engineering in Zagreb in 1929. His first job was at the School of Medicine in Paris in 1930, and then he moved to Zagreb to the Department of Organic Chemistry of the Faculty of Engineering run by our Nobel Prize winner Vladimir Prelog (1935-1938). There he took his PhD degree with a dissertation on piperidine gamma derivatives. From 1938 to 1947 he was a research associate at an institute established by the pharmaceutical company Kastel (later Pliva). This is when he became a lecturer at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Zagreb and the first director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry, established in 1946/47. In 1948 he became reader, and in 1956 (full) professor. In 1957 he moved to the newly established School of Medicine in Rijeka, and set up the Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He ran the Institute until retirement in 1975. He was the second dean of the Rijeka University School of Medicine and a pioneer of quantum chemistry and medical cybernetics in undergraduate and (post)graduate courses. His scientific work consists of over 200 papers published at home and abroad, 60 professional papers, 20 book reviews, three works of translation, and 27 volumes of lecture notes. In 1958, professor Cerkovnikov established the Croatian Chemical Society and the Rijeka and Istria branches of the nation's Association of Chemists and Chemical Engineers, chairing them until 1974. In addition, he was one of the founding fathers, and the first chair of the Health Culture Studies Association in Rijeka (that preceded today's Croatian Scientific Society for the History of Health Culture), established in 1965. |
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Cedomila Milin |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Acta medico-historica adriatica : AMHA Volume: 6 ISSN: 1334-4366 ISO Abbreviation: Acta Med Hist Adriat Publication Date: 2008 |
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Created Date: 2010-01-27 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101241032 Medline TA: Acta Med Hist Adriat Country: Croatia |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 309-20 Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Chemisty and Biochemistry, Rijeka University School of Medicine, Brace Branchetta 20, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia. |
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