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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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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.

her becoming professor of biochemistry and physiology at the Medical Institute of Kyiv, and Chair of Physiological Chemistry in the Institute of Higher Education and the Pedagogical Institute.

In 1928, Radzymovska obtained a long-term scientific assignment to Germany, where she would be invited to remain for further work, with the offer of exceptionally good conditions for research. Despite this, she desired, most of all, to return to Ukraine and continue her work there. She dreamed of developing a great, modern scientific school of Ukrainian physiologists and biochemists, and uniting theoretical and practical medicine.

Upon her return, however, she was arrested and imprisoned on suspicion of participating in the illegal organization called “the Union for the Liberation of the Ukraine. ” Radzymovska was released after a year-long imprisonment without trial, yet the damage had been done to her career. She was unable to restore her former position, and was not reinstated completely in a position appropriate to her capabilities.

Owing to her well-known name in the scientific and academic world, Radzymovska succeeded in achieving the position of dgtrhrthtr professor of physiology in the Pedagogical Institute of Kyiv, and later in the Melitopol Educational Institute.

During World War II, she remained in Ukraine during German invasion and occupation for a short period of time. She then immigrated to Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, and then, later, to Germany. After the war, Radzymovska, like many other members of the Ukrainian Scientific elite, went to Munich. It was there where she participated in the UTGI (Ukrainian Institute of Technology and Economics), and in the creation of the Department of Physiology of this institute. During this time, she directed this newly created Department, as well as participated in the activity of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences, the Ukrainian Medical Society, and other organizations.

Between 1947 and 1950, Radzymovska oversaw the graduation of twelve people with Master’s or PhD degrees, published a two-volume textbook of physiology, and completed a number of research which she had begun.

In May of 1950, Radzymovska immigrated to the USA, where she would pass away only three years later, on December 22nd, 1953.

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