Platon Kostiuk
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Platon Hryhorovych Kostiuk (Ukrainian: Платон Григорович Костюк) (20 August 1924 – 10 May 2010) was a Soviet and Ukrainian physiologist, neurobiologist, electrophysiologist, and biophysicist. He was a member (academician) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of Ukraine and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was also a director of the Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology and the International Center of Molecular Physiology NAS of Ukraine; chair of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Kyiv branch, vice-president of the NAS of Ukraine, and chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR.[1][2]
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Born | Platon Hryhorovych Kostiuk (1924-08-20)20 August 1924 |
Died | 10 May 2010(2010-05-10) (aged 85) Kyiv, Ukraine |
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Spouse | Lyudmyla Kostyuk (1929–2011) |
Children | Olena (1957–2011) Olga (1966) |
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Fields | Physiology |
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Thesis | Nerve adaptation to expanding current (1949) |
Doctoral advisor | Danylo Vorontsov |
Notable students | Galyna Skibo, Alexei Verkhratsky |
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Quick Facts Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, Preceded by ...
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Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR | |
In office 1985–1990 | |
Preceded by | Kostiantyn Sytnyk |
Succeeded by | Vladimir Ivashko |
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