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Investigations of Ferdman and his associates are devoted to 

 the study of muscle chemistry, especially phosphorous com- 

 pound metabolism and the formation and elimination of am- 

 monia, and to the biochemistry of diseased muscles. They 

 ascertained the presence of glutamine in the tissues of animals 

 and studied its role. 

 Bibliography: 



Biochemistry of Phosphorous Compounds. Kiev: 1935. 



Exchange of Phosphorous Compounds. Moscow -Leningrad: 



1940. 



Biochemistry of Muscle Disease. Kiev: 1953. 



On processes of formation and elimination of ammonia in the 



animal organism. Uspekhi Biokhim., 1950, 1, 216-242. 



Biokhimia (Biochemistry). Textbook. Moscow: Sovetskaya 



Nauka. 1959. 600 pp. 1st edition. Moscow: Vysshaya 



Shkola. 1962. 625 pp. 2nd edition. 



Contributions to functional biochemistry of muscles. Izvest. 



Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Ser. Biol. 3, 346-354 (1960). 

 Office: Kiev University 



Kiev, Ukrainian SSR 

 Residence: Ulitsa Leontovicha 9, Apt. 3 

 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR 



FESENKOV, VASILII GRIGOR'EVICH (Astrophysicist) 



V. G. Fesenkov was born January 13, 1889. In 1911 he 

 graduated from PQiar'kov University. He is a member of many 

 committees of the International Astronomical Union. In 1927 

 he became a Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of 

 Sciences and in 1935 an Academician. Since 1946 he has been 

 a member of the Kazakh S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, and a 

 Member of the Presidium of Kazakh Academy of Sciences as 

 of 1961. 



Fesenkov' s research deals with the physical properties of 

 planets, meteors, physics of the sun and stars, evolution of 

 stars, and the structure of gas and dust nebulae. He studied the 

 structure of galaxies, cosmogony, celestial mechanics, and 

 optics of the atmosphere. Fesenkov pioneered in the photo- 

 metric investigation of the zodiac light and formulated a dy- 

 namic theory of zodiac light. He also investigated twilight of 

 our atmosphere, the structure of the atmosphere, the brightness 



