Natalja Petrovna Bechterewa

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Natalja Petrovna Bechterewa ( Russian: Наталья Петровна Бехтерева ; born July 7, 1924 in Leningrad ; † June 22, 2008 in Hamburg ) was a Soviet - Russian neurophysiologist .

Life

Bechterewa's grandfather was the neurophysiologist Vladimir Mikhailovich Bechterew . Her father Pyotr Vladimirovich Bechterew was an engineer in the special office for military inventions for special purposes Ostechbjuro and took part in the development of aviation transport systems . He was arrested during the Great Terror on September 22, 1937, along with many other employees of the Ostechbjuros, and sentenced by the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR on February 23, 1938 under Article 58 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR and shot immediately. Bechterewa's mother, Sinaida Vasilievna Bechterewa, was a doctor and came to the camp . As the daughter of an enemy of the people , Bechterewa grew up in an orphanage with her brother and younger sister .

During the German-Soviet war studied in Bechterewa blocked Leningrad on 1 Leningrad Pavlov - Medicine -Institut with completion in 1947 and then graduated from the postgraduate at the Department of Physiology of the central nervous system of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (AMN SSSR).

In 1950 Bechterewa became a research assistant at the Institute for Experimental Medicine of the AMN-SSSR. In 1951 she received her doctorate as a candidate in biological sciences. In 1954 she moved to the Polenov Institute for Neurosurgery of the Ministry of Health of the USSR, where she became laboratory manager and deputy director. In 1959 she received her doctorate in medical science. In 1960 she joined the CPSU . In 1962 she returned to the Institute for Experimental Medicine of the AMN-SSSR. She headed the Department of Neurophysiology and became director of the institute in 1970 (until 1990). The appointment as professor followed . Her students included Pawel Vladimirovich Bundsen and Wassili Andrejewitsch Kljutscharjow . In 1970 she was elected a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR, since 1991 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN)).

In 1975 Bechterewa became a member of the AMN-SSSR. In 1981 she was elected a full member of the AN-SSSR. She became scientific director of the AN-SSSR Brain Center in 1990 and scientific director of the RAN Institute for the Human Brain in 1992. She led the study group on neurophysiology of thought, action and consciousness . She was Vice President of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (1974–1980) and the International Organization of Psychophysiology (1982–1994).

Bechterewa was positive about not generally accepted ideas, such as the water monkey theory . She advocated the investigation of the special abilities of the seer Baba Wanga and the healer Anatoly Michailowitsch Kaschpirowski . The Commission for the Fight against Pseudoscience and Scientific Falsification at the RAN Presidium, which was founded in 1988 by Vitaly Lasarewitsch Ginsburg and headed from 1998 by Eduard Pawlowitsch Krugljakow , viewed parts of Bechterewas' work critically.

Bekhtereva's grave in the Komarovo cemetery

Bechterewa was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1970–1974) and the People's Deputies Congress (1989–1991).

Bechterewa was married to the physiologist Vsevolod Ivanovich Medvedev (1924-2008) in his first marriage . Her son Swatoslaw Vsevolodowitsch Medvedev continued his mother's work. Her granddaughter Natalia Medvedeva became a psychiatrist . In his second marriage, Bechterewa was married to the economist Ivan Ilyich Kaschteljan.

Bechterewa died in 2008 after a long illness in the Asklepios Klinik St. Georg in Hamburg and was buried in the Komarowo cemetery.

Bechtereva is named after the Institute for the Human Brain of the RAN (since 2009) and the asteroid (6074) Bechtereva, discovered in 1968 by Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova .

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Honors, prizes

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Большая российская энциклопедия: БЕ́ХТЕРЕВА Наталья Петровна (accessed March 20, 2020).
  2. ↑ a b c d RAN: Бехтерева Наталья Петровна (accessed March 20, 2020).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Международный Объединенный Биографический Центр: БЕХТЕРЕВА Наталья Петровна (accessed March 20, 2020).
  4. ↑ a b c d Наталья Бехтерева не любила, когда мозг сравнивали с компьютером . In: RIA Novosti . June 23, 2008 ( [1] [accessed March 20, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Наши предки - акродельфиды (accessed March 20, 2020).
  6. ↑ Академик Наталья Бехтерева о своем знакомстве с Вангой и Кашпировским (accessed March 20, 2020).
  7. ↑ Лженаука. Чем она угрожает науке и обществу? (accessed on March 20, 2020).
  8. ↑ Evrika: Наталья Бехтерева (accessed on March 20, 2020).
  9. ^ Bechterewas grave (accessed on March 20, 2020).
  10. ↑ About the ASC Awards (accessed March 20, 2020).
  11. ↑ Постановление ЦК КПСС, Совмина СССР от 31.10.1985 N 1029 "О присуждении Государственных пренных пренных премкеных пренак" (accessed on March 20th, 2020.
  12. ↑ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 04/11/1994 г. № 687 о награждении орденом Дружбы народов Бехтеревой Н.П (accessed March 20, 2020).
  13. ↑ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 06/04/1999 г. № 701 (accessed March 20, 2020).
  14. ↑ УКАЗ Президента РФ от 14.07.2004 N 899 О НАГРАЖДЕНИИ ОРДЕНОМ "ЗА ЗАСЛУГИ ПЕРЕД ОТЕЧЕСТВОМ" III СТЕПЕНИ БЕХОТЕР
  15. ↑ О присвоении звания "Почетный гражданин Санкт-Петербурга" в 2008 году (accessed March 20, 2020).
  16. ^ 96th birthday of Natalja Bechterewa. July 7, 2020, accessed August 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bechterewa, Natalja Petrovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Бехтерева, Наталья Петровна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-Russian neurophysiologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 2008
Place of death Hamburg