Pavel Bogovski

Pavel Bogovski (10 March 1919 Tartu – 8 March 2006) was an Estonian oncologist and anatomy pathologist.[1] [2]

He studied at Tartu University from 1937 to 1941, but then transferred because of the Second World War to Almaty Medical Institute in Kazakhstan, where he graduated in 1943.[1] 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.[1] From 1977 he was the leader of the commission on Estonian medical terminology.[1]

In 1993 he was elected a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.[1]In 1999 he was awarded the Republic of Estonia science prize (lifework prize).[1]

References

Kändler, Tiit (2002). A Hundred Great Estonians of the 20th Century. Estonian Encyclopaedia Publishers. pp. 32–33. ISBN 9985-70-103-8.
Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Biology and Ecology. 1999. p. 84.

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[100_suurkuju,_2002-1] Kändler, Tiit (2002). A Hundred Great Estonians of the 20th Century. Estonian Encyclopaedia Publishers. pp. 32–33. ISBN 9985-70-103-8.

[2] Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Biology and Ecology. 1999. p. 84.