Nikolai Kravkov
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| Born | Nikolai Pavlovich Kravkov 8 March 1865 Ryazan, Russian Empire |
| Died | 24 April 1924 (aged 59) Leningrad, USSR |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Fields | pharmacology |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg University, Imperial Military Medical Academy |
| Known for | founder of the Russian scientific school of pharmacology |
| Notable awards |
Russian Empire: Lenin Prize (1926) |
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Russian Empire:
Order of St. Anna 3rd Class
Order of St. Vladimir 4rd Class
Order of St. Vladimir 3rd Class
Nikolai Pavlovich Kravkov (in Russian Николай Павлович Кравков) was a prominent Russian pharmacologist, Full Member of the Imperial Military Medical Academy (1914), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Science (1920), one of the first laureates of the Lenin Prize (1926). He is considered the founder of the Russian scientific school of pharmacology.
Nikolai Kravkov was born a sixth child in the family of a non-commissioned officer Pavel Alexeyevich Kravkov (1826-1910), who served as a senior clerk in the office of the Chief Enlistment Officer of the Ryazan Governorate. According to the family legend, the scientist's mother Evdokia (Avdotia) Ivanovna (1834-1891), before wedding a «Kaluga petty bourgeois», was an illegitimate daughter of Konstantin Kavelin (1818-1885), a famous Russian historian, jurist and sociologist, one of the ideologists of Russian liberalism at the age of the reforms of Alexander II.
In 1876-1884 Nikolai Kravkov attended the First Ryazan Gymnasium. In summer 1884 the future scientist was admitted to the Imperial Saint Petersburg University, where he studied at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. In his last year at the University Kravkov worked in Ivan Sechenov's laboratory and published two research works on enzymes. In May 1888 he graduated from the University with the grade of candidate in natural science.
In 1888-1892 Nikolai Kravkov studied at the Imperial Military Medical Academy. Professor Viktor Pashutin was a special influence on him in that period. Kravkov graduated from the Academy cum laude. The Academic Conference unanimously decided to leave him in the Academy «for finishing three years perfecting courses at public cost as attached to the Military Clinic Hospital being in actual service at the Military Medical Academy.
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