Eduard Kolchinsky: in memory of a friend and motivator

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https://doi.org/10.15421/272031

Abstract

On January 24, 2020, the largest historian of science, evolutionary biologist Eduard Izrailevich Kolchinsky passed away in St. Petersburg. This is a great loss for science and for many historians of science in Ukraine. For decades, many of us have been friends, communicated, and were charged with new ideas and ideas from him. Kolchinsky is widely known to the world community of historians of science and science specialists as an outstanding researcher and organizer of science, for 20 years he headed the St. Petersburg branch of the Institute of the History of Natural Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and founded the remarkable, highly rated journal Historical and Biological Research. Kolchinsky’s reports and publications have always attracted the attention of everyone working in science, the conferences he held were crowded and lively. He was an open person who helped near and far, generously shared his high intellectual potential, supported and stimulated young researchers. Kolchinsky was in charge of large international projects, his creative energy was great, he was sensitive to new trends in the development of science and always responded to them in an original and large-scale manner. Author of over a thousand scientific and popular science publications, several dozen monographs. He brought up a galaxy of students – recognized scientists, followers, like-minded people.

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2021-01-22