BEZREDKA

BEZREDKA, Alexander Mikhailovich, professor at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, born in 1870 in Odessa; in 1892 he graduated from the natural sciences department of Novorossiysk University with the degree of Candidate of Natural Sciences. While still a student, B. received a gold medal for his work "An Attempt at a History of the Development of Stereochemical Views." This work, printed by decision of the physics and mathematics faculty, also served as the topic for his dissertation. Having been refused admission (due to his Jewish faith) to the medical faculties in Kyiv and Moscow, B. was forced to leave Russia and move to Paris. Here in the autumn of 1892, he was admitted, on the basis of his scientific work, without examination, to the second year of the medical faculty, which he completed in early 1897 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Immediately after defending his doctoral dissertation, he joined the Pasteur Institute, where he worked in the laboratory of I. I. Mechnikov, first as an intern, then as an assistant, head of the laboratory, associate professor, and finally professor. In 1916, after the death of I. I. Mechnikov, he was appointed to his position. Having worked in Paris for 30 years, B. maintained close ties with Russian science and the Russian scientific world, in particular, by providing Russian microbiologists with the opportunity to work in the institute's laboratory