Wikipedia

Boris Balinsky: Difference between revisions

Browse history interactively
← Previous edit
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
No edit summary
 
(19 intermediate revisions by 12 users not shown)
Line 1:
{{Short description|Ukrainian/-South African biologist (1905–1997)}}
{{moreUse footnotesdmy dates|date=FebruaryApril 20152022}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Boris IvanBorys Balinsky
<div class="center" style="font-size:smaller">Борис Іванович Балінський</div>
| image = Борис Балінський (1936).png
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1905|9|23}}
| birth_place = [[Kyiv]], [[Russian Empire]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1997|9|1|1905|9|23}}
| death_place = {{nowrap|[[Johannesburg]], South Africa}}
| children = [[John B. Balinsky]], Helen David
| spouse = {{plainlist|
* Catherine Singaiivska,
* Elizabeth Stengel
}}
| nationality = {{Plainlist|
* [[Russian Empire]] (1905-19171905–1917)
* [[Ukrainian People's Republic]] (1917-19211917–1921)
* [[USSR]] (1922–1941)
* Germany (1941-19491941–1949)
* South Africa (1950–1983)
}}
| fields = [[Embryology]], [[entomology]]
| workplaces = {{Plainlist|
* [[KievKyiv University]]
* {{Interlanguage[[I. linkI. multi|Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology]], NAS of Ukraine|uk|3=Інститут зоології імені І. І. Шмальгаузена НАН України}}
* [[University of the Witwatersrand]]
}}
| alma_mater = {{Plainlist|
* [[KievKyiv University]]
}}
| doctoral_advisor = [[Ivan Schmalhausen]]
| thesis_title notable_students =
}}
| thesis_year =
 
| thesis_title1 =
'''Borys Ivanovych Balinsky''' (23 September 1905 – 1 September 1997) was a Ukrainian-South African [[biologist]], [[embryology|embryologist]], [[entomology|entomologist]].
| thesis_url =
 
| thesis_year1 =
A [[professor]] at [[Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv|Kyiv University]] and later the [[University of the Witwatersrand]], [[Johannesburg]],<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Fabian |first=B |date=2009 |title=Balinsky’s Darwinian roots |url=https://archive.sajs.co.za/index.php/SAJS/article/view/149/122 |journal=South African Journal of Science |volume=105 |issue=Nov-Dec 2009 |pages=410-414}}</ref> Balinsky was a pioneer researcher in the field of [[Embryology|experimental embryology]], [[electron microscopy]] and [[developmental biology]] and the author of a popular textbook in embryology ''An Introduction to Embryology''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Balinsky|first1=Boris|title=An Introduction to Embryology|url=https://archive.org/details/introductiontoem0000bali|url-access=registration|date=1970|publisher=W.B. Saunders Company|location=Philadelphia|isbn=0721615171|edition=3rd}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Korzh |first=Vladimir |date=2005 |title=Boris Balinsky: transition from embryology to developmental biology |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923201432/http://www.cecm.usp.br/~cewinter/aulas/artigos/2005/Balinsky.pdf |journal=BioEssays |volume=27 |pages=970–977 |archive-url= |archive-date= |via=Wiley}}</ref>
| academic_advisors =
 
| notable_students = {{Plainlist
== Early life and education ==
|}}}}
Balinsky was born 23 September 1905, in [[Kyiv]],<ref name=":0" /> then part of the [[Russian Empire]] (now the capital of present day, [[Ukraine]]). His father, Ivan Balinsky, was a historian, lawyer and teacher at Galen College. His mother, Elizaveta Radzymovska was a biology teacher. Her aunt, [[Valentyna Radzymovska]], was a biologist who was involved in Ukrainian independence movements. His parents loved English literature and spoke Ukrainian, Russian and English at home.<ref name=Kliu>{{cite book |language=en |first1=Iryna |last1=Kliuchkovska |first2=O. |last2=Pyatkovska |first3=Y. |last3=Marusyk |first4=V. |last4=Hoisan |first5=K. |last5=Zhylych |title=Ukrainians of South Africa : Society, identity and future (BORIS BALINSKY p12-13) |location=Cape Town |date=2020 |isbn=9780620961431 |translator-first1=Mykola |translator-last1=Biletskyi |publisher=UAZA |chapter=Ukrainians, Ukrainian places and the Ukrainian community in South Africa }}</ref> His love of etymology began with a book he received in 1916 on collecting butterflies, as well as with the summers he spent in the village of Severinovka, where his grandfather kept bees.<ref name=":2">{{cite journal |author=E.S. Grossman |year=2005 |title=Borys Balinsky 10 September 1905&nbsp;— 1 September 1997 |url=https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/EJC96417 |journal=[[South African Journal of Science]] |volume=101 |pages=309–312 |number=May/June |hdl=10520/EJC96417}}</ref>
 
He was a student of the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Zoology|zoologist]] and [[evolutionary biologist]], [[Ivan Schmalhausen]],<ref name=":1" /> and one of the first people to conduct experiments inducing [[organogenesis]] in amphibian embryos. His distinguished himself by having his first scientific paper published while he was only 20 and still an undergraduate.<ref name=":2" />
 
== Career ==
Balinsky became a full university professor at Kiev University in 1933 at age 28 and the deputy director of the [[National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine|Ukrainian Academy of Sciences]] two years later in 1935.<ref name=":2" /> He became a recognised expert in fish and amphibian development.
 
His wife was arrested October 7, 1937 for engaging in counter-revolutionary propaganda and was sentenced to ten years in a [[gulag]].<ref name=":2" /> Therefore Balinsky lost his post as professor and as deputy director of the Institute
'''Boris Ivan Balinsky''' (23 September 1905 – 1 September 1997) was a Ukrainian and South African [[biologist]], [[embryology|embryologist]], [[entomology|entomologist]], [[professor]] of [[Kiev University]] and [[University of the Witwatersrand]]. Pioneer researcher in the field of [[experimental embryology]], [[electron microscopy]] and [[developmental biology]]. He was author of popular textbook in embryology ''An Introduction to Embryology''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Balinsky|first1=Boris|title=An Introduction to Embryology|url=https://archive.org/details/introductiontoem0000bali|url-access=registration|date=1970|publisher=W.B. Saunders Company|location=Philadelphia|isbn=0721615171|edition=3rd}}</ref>
 
BalinakyA was born 23 September 1905, in [[Kyiv]], [[Russian Empire]]. He was a studentvictim of [[IvanSoviet Schmalhausenrepressions]], andBalinsky one of the first to experimentally induce [[organogenesis]]remained in amphibianKiev embryos.under BalinskyGerman wasoccupation aduring fullWorld universityWar professorII andwhile the deputy director of the Institute of Biology in Kyiv at 28 years ofothers ageevacuated. He became a recognized expert in fish and amphibianhis development.family Beingfled a victim ofto [[Soviet repressionsPoznań]], he[[Poland]] remainedafter underthe German occupation during World War IIevacuation and fled tolater [[PosnanMunich]], Poland and later [[MunichGermany]],.<ref Germany.name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> Balinsky also briefly worked in [[Scotland]] in [[Conrad Hal Waddington]]'s laboratory on mice embryology.<ref Finallyname=":0" /> Later, in 1949, he wentmigrated to [[South Africa]] towhere he become one of the founders of South African experimental bioscience.<ref name=":1" />
 
Balinsky also worked in entomology and described new species of [[Plecoptera]], [[Odonata]] and moths from the family [[Pyralidae]], mainly from [[Caucasus]] and South Africa.
 
== Death and legacy ==
He died at home in [[Johannesburg]] on 1 September 1997, aged 91.<ref Hename=":1" had/> aHis son [[John B. Balinsky|John Balinsky]] who iswas also a scientist.
 
== Insects described ==
Line 291 ⟶ 300:
 
== Sources ==
* {{cite book | last = Balinsky | first = BorisBorys | title = Digital Surrogate of Boris Balinsky Memoir | publisher = University of Illinois Archives | date = 1988 | url = http://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/index.php?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=297&q=balinsky}}
* {{cite journal | last =Korzh | first=Volodymyr =Vladimir| title =BorisBorys Balinsky: transition from embryology to developmental biology | journal =[[BioEssays]] | volume =27 | pages =970–977 | date =2005 | issue =9 | doi =10.1002/bies.20253 | pmid =16108077 | url =http://www.cecm.usp.br/~cewinter/aulas/artigos/2005/Balinsky.pdf | url-status =dead | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20150923201432/http://www.cecm.usp.br/~cewinter/aulas/artigos/2005/Balinsky.pdf | archive-date =2015-09-23}}
* {{cite book |last1=Willis |first1=C.K. |last2=Samways |first2=M.J. | title = Waterdancers of South Africa's National Botanical Gardens | publisher = South African National Biodiversity Institute | series = SANBI Biodiversity Series |year=2011 | volume = 21 | location = Pretoria, South Africa | pages = 108 | url = http://www.sanbi.org/sites/default/files/documents/documents/sanbibiodiveristyseries21.pdf | isbn = 978-1-919976-68-6 }}
* {{cite journal | last = Fabian | first = B. | title = Balinsky's Darwinian roots | journal = [[South African Journal of Science]] | volume = 105 | issue = 11–12 | pages = 410–414 | date = December 2009 | url = https://archive.sajs.co.za/index.php/SAJS/article/view/149/122 | doi = 10.4102/sajs.v105i11/12.149 | doi-access = free }}
* {{cite journal |author = E.S. Grossman |title = Boris IvanBorys Balinsky 10 September 1905&nbsp;— 1 September 1997 |volume =101 101|number = May/June |pages = 309–312 |year = 2005 |journal = [[South African Journal of Science]] |hdl = 10520/EJC96417 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Desnitskiy |first1=A. G. |title=On a contribution of BorisBorys Balinsky to the comparative and ecological embryology of amphibians |journal=Russian Journal of Developmental Biology |volume=45 |issue=2 |year=2014 |pages=101–104 |issn=1062-3604 |doi=10.1134/S1062360414010032 |s2cid=5635200 |url=https://www.academia.edu/6715390}}
 
{{Authority control}}
Line 307 ⟶ 316:
[[Category:Ukrainian biologists]]
[[Category:South African biologists]]
[[Category:UkrainianSoviet emigrants to South Africa]]
[[Category:Immigrants to South Africa]]
[[Category:20th-century biologists]]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Balinsky"