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was the President of this Academy of Sciences. In 1942 he be- 

 came a Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. Palladin 

 was named, in 1935, an Honored Scientist of the Ukrainian 

 S.S.R. He has been a member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Medi- 

 cal Sciences since 1944. In 1950 he was an Honored Member 

 of the Belorussian S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. Also he is an 

 Honorary Member of the Academies of Sciences of Bulgaria, 

 Hungary, and Rumania and a foreign Member of the Polish 

 Academy of Sciences. He has been a Deputy to the U.S.S.R. 

 Supreme Soviet. The Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. awarded 

 him in 1955 the title of "Hero of Socialist Labor." 



Palladin' s work is in animal biochemistry. He was the first 

 in the U.S.S.R. to study experimentally the biochemistry of 

 vitamins and the intermediate chemical transformations in 

 metabolism (intracellular carbohydrate and phosphorous ex- 

 change). In the study of vitamins, he investigated the processes 

 of their transformation in the tissues of animals, and the dis- 

 order of metabolism during avitaminosis and hypo vitamino sis. 

 He produced a synthetic vitamin preparation *vikasol,* which 

 is utilized in medicine. His earlier work was devoted to the 

 study of creatin. In the area of biochemistry of the muscle he 

 investigated the role of creatin in the muscle and the questions 

 of muscular activity and muscle training. In the area of bio- 

 chemistry of the nervous system, Palladin and associates 

 showed the biochemical difference of separate, functionally - 

 dissimilar parts of the central nervous system; conducted com- 

 parative biochemical investigations on tissues of the nervous 

 system in different types of animals; and studied the chemical 

 composition of tissues of the nervous system in the process of 

 embryonic development of animals. Palladin studied the bio- 

 chemistry of the brain under various functional conditions, such 

 as inhibition and excitation, and investigated proteins and en- 

 zymes of the nervous system. 



Palladin is the author of TextbojDk on Biological Chemistry 

 (1924, 12th ed., 1946). In 1926, he was instrumental in es- 

 tablishing the first Soviet biochemical journal, "Scientific 

 Notes of the Biochemical Institute," later renamed (1934) the 

 "Ukrainian Biochemical Journal." He is its editor at the pres- 

 ent time. 



As of 1961 Palladin was a Member of the Presidium of the 

 U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. 

 Bibliography: 



Investigations on the Formation and Secretion of Creatin in 



Animals. Kharkov: 1916. 



