Boris Babkin

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Boris Babkin

Boris Petrovich Babkin ( Russian Борис Петрович Бабкин Boris Petrovich Babkin ; born January 5, 1877 in Kursk , Russian Empire , † May 3, 1950 in Montreal , Canada ) was a Russian- British physiologist working in England and Canada . He was a Fellow of the Royal Society .

Life

Babkin studied at the Medical Academy in Saint Petersburg and received his doctorate in medicine in 1904. From 1904 to 1906 he completed his studies in Germany and Italy. From 1902 to 1912 he was a student and assistant to Ivan Pavlov at his Institute for Experimental Medicine in Saint Petersburg. From 1907 he was also a private lecturer at the Medical Academy. He taught from 1912 to 1915 at the Agricultural Institute Novo Alexandria and from 1915 to 1922 as a professor of physiology at the University of Odessa. Not being a friend of the Bolsheviks , he was imprisoned and expelled from the country. He went to England in 1922 and did research at University College London with Ernest Starling for the British Medical Research Council. In 1924 he went to Canada and became a professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax . In 1928 he received a research professorship at McGill University , where he stayed for the remainder of his career. In 1940/41 he headed the Physiology Department and after his retirement he did research in Neurophysiology with Wilder Penfield until his death .

In 1932 Babkin was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1950 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . He was an honorary doctor from University College London and Dalhousie University. In 1949 he received the Friedenwald Medal of the American Gastroenterological Association and in 1946 the Flavell Medal of the Royal Society of Canada.

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He was known for contributions to the physiology of the digestive system (its secretion and movement) and its control by various hormones and nerves. Under Pavlov, he worked on conditioned reflexes.

In the justification for admission to the Royal Society, his evidence was highlighted:

  • that the three pancreatic enzymes known at the time are secreted independently and in parallel.
  • Histamine only stimulates the parietal cells of the stomach lining.
  • sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves act on different cells in the salivary gland
  • Refutation of the theory of secretory and trophic nerves by Rudolf Heidenhain

The Babkin reflex in babies (reactions to the touch of the palm) is named after him.

In 1949 he published a biography of his teacher and friend Pavlov.

Fonts

  • The external secretion of the digestive glands, Springer 1928
  • The secretive mechanism of the digestive glands, Hoeber 1944, 2nd edition 1950
  • Pavlov, University of Chicago Press 1949

literature

  • TK Shnitka, JAL Gilbert, RC Harrison (Eds.), Gastric Secretion: Mechanisms and Control, Proc. Symposium Univ. Alberta 1965, Pergamon Press 1967 (dedicated to Babkin with a biography of Babkin)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Boris P. Babkin (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on September 26, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Babkin, Boris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Babkin, Boris Petrovich (full name); Babkin, Boris Petrovich (full name); Бабкин, Борис Петрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-British physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Kursk , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1950
Place of death Montreal , Canada