Early life and education
In the history of biology, Leon Orbeli occupies the ground between patient observation and the larger claims it makes possible.
Leon Orbeli was born at Tsaghkadzor in 1882. His recorded nationality is Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. He was educated at Imperial Academy of Medical Surgery and Q111295076.
Professional appointments
Around the turn of the twentieth century the sciences fractured into specialisms and simultaneously became national assets, funded and directed on a scale no earlier generation had seen.
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Research and scientific context
Biology had to earn its laws, because living things rarely behave identically twice.
Working from Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic shaped what was possible. Access to instruments, collections, journals and colleagues has always been geographic, and the history of science is partly a history of that inequality.
Awards and recognition
His work was formally recognised with the Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of Lenin and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
Death and legacy
Read now, the significance is less in any single result than in the fact that the results held. Biology is cumulative, and a contribution counts if the next generation could stand on it.
Leon Orbeli died in 1958 at the age of 76. The work outlived the debates that surrounded it, which is the only durable form of scientific success.
Achievements
- Held posts at Bestuzhev Courses, First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg and I. M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry
- Educated at Imperial Academy of Medical Surgery and Q111295076
- Fields of research: physiology
