Mirasadulla Mirgasimov belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Mirasadulla Mirgasimov as Azerbaijani and Soviet surgeon and scientist, the first president of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (1945-1947).
Mirasadulla Mirgasimov was born at Baku in 1883. His recorded nationality is Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. He trained at Odesa University.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
His posts were held at Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.
The recorded fields of work are medicine.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
Recognition followed: Order of Lenin (1946), Order of the Red Star (1943), Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1950) and Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus" (1946).
That the work was done from Azerbaijan Democratic Republic matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Mirasadulla Mirgasimov died in 1958, aged 75. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Order of Lenin — 1946
- Order of the Red Star — 1943
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour — 1950
- Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus" — 1946
- Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Held posts at Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
- Fields: medicine
