Platon Kostiuk
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Platon Kostiuk
Платон Костюк
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20 August 1924 Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
| Died | 10 May 2010 (aged 85) Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Residence | USSR, Ukraine |
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| Fields | Physiology |
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| Thesis | Nerve adaptation to expanding current (1949) |
| Doctoral advisor | Danylo Vorontsov |
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| Spouse | Lyudmyla Khokhol-Zelenska (1929–2011) |
| Children |
Olena (1957–2011) Olga (1966) |
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| Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada | |
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In office 1985–1990 |
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| Preceded by | Kostiantyn Sytnyk |
| Succeeded by | Vladimir Ivashko |
Platon Hryhorovych Kostiuk (Ukrainian: Платон Григорович Костюк) (20 August 1924 – 10 May 2010) was a 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, Kiev branch, vice-president of the NAS of Ukraine, and chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR.
Platon Kostyuk was born in Kiev to the family of the Ukrainian psychologist Hryhoriy Kostyuk. A native speaker of both Ukrainian and Russian, Kostyuk studied English and German, and graduated from high school when the German–Russian War began in 1941. Kostyuk entered Stalingrad University to study biology and Roman philology. He was later evacuated to Siberia where he studied medicine till 1945. After half a year of military medical service, he was demobilized for entry into the Department of Biology at Kyiv University. In parallel he studied psychiatry at Kyiv Medical Institute. Kostyuk worked on his doctoral thesis in Danylo Vorontsov's laboratory of physiology. In his research, he developed microelectrode equipment independently of Judith Graham Pool and Ralph W. Gerard (1949). He completed his doctoral thesis in 1957. In 1958, Kostyuk became Head of the Department of General Nervous System Physiology at the Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology. From 1969 to 2010, he served as the director of the institute.
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