ISSUE NO. 22 | MARCH 2022
For all the reasons above and the others that you will figure out when watching, Unorthodox certainly worth a rainy march night.
”God expected too much of me. Now I need to find my own path.” – Esther Shapiro
Maria Andrade
Biography VALENTYNA RADZYMOVSKA Valentyna Vasil’evna Radzymovska was born the town of Lubny, Ukraine, on the 1st of October, 1886. While her father, Vasyl’ Yanovsky, was a nobleman who owned the village of Tarnovshchin, Valentyna’s mother was a well-known novelist and playwright. Both of her parents were prominent members of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, which was a term used to describe university-educated and professionally active people belonging to the bourgeoisie. After finishing high school, Radzymovska went on to study medicine at the University of St. Petersburg. However, the medical school of St. Petersburg University had never before admitted women. This led to Radzymovska having to obtain special admission from Nicolas II, the Russian Emperor, and, thus, becoming the first woman to enter the medical school of that university. In 1904, her studies would be interrupted and her ability to reside in the capital revoked as punishment for her involvement in political activity supporting the Ukrainian national resistance. She then transferred to the University of Kyiv, where she would meet Ivan Vasil’evich Radzymovska, a fellow student who would soon become her husband. Valentyna graduated with distinction from the School of Medicine of the University of Kyiv in 1913, and was invited to become an assistant in the department of Physiological Chemistry. Then, in 1915, she became a grrgrhrth
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senior assistant and soon thereafter an assistant professor at the University. After graduating from university, Radzymovska began her scientific career in the fields of physiology and biochemistry, to which she would devote the rest of her life to. In 1924, she defended her doctoral thesis, “On the Influence of Hydrogen Ions on the Life of Tissue Cells of Vertebrates.” Her dissertation focused on the development of original methods for the cultivation of living tissues outside of an organism, and for the determination of “pH Concentration.” This would pave the way of PAGE 2
