Pavel Bogovski

Pavel Bogovski (Russian: Павел Александрович Боговский; 10 March 1919 Tartu – 8 March 2006[1]) was an Estonian oncologist and anatomy pathologist.[2][3]

He studied at the University of Tartu from 1937 to 1941, but then transferred because of the Second World War to Almaty Medical Institute in Kazakhstan, where he graduated in 1943.[2] After the war he returned to Tartu to study for a Ph.D, which he was awarded in 1949.

From 1949 he worked at the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine in Tallinn and was its director from 1974 to 1991.[2] From 1977 he was the leader of the commission on Estonian medical terminology.[2]

In 1993 he was elected a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.[2] In 1999 he was awarded the Republic of Estonia science prize (lifework prize).[2]

References

1. "Suri akadeemik Pavel Bogovski". Tervise Arengu Instituut (in Estonian). 2016-03-20.
2. Kändler, Tiit (2002). A Hundred Great Estonians of the 20th Century. Estonian Encyclopaedia Publishers. pp. 32–33. ISBN 9985-70-103-8.
3. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Biology and Ecology. 1999. p. 84.