A century to live - not a field to go

Centenary Jubilees of the Year 2012
In 2012, we celebrate the 100 anniversary of the birth ...
... by Conrad Bloch
(21.01.1912 - 15.10.2000), an outstanding biochemist, Nobel Prize winner 1964, for his discovery of the mechanisms of regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism. He described the process of converting fatty acids to cholesterol, which made it possible to develop the basics of therapy for the treatment of diseases with metabolic disorders and create medicines that reduce cholesterol levels. He was born in Poland, studied at the University of Munich. After the Nazis came to power, he emigrated to the USA, where he defended his thesis at Columbia University, and then headed the Department of Biochemistry at Harvard University for about 30 years.

... Boris Chertok
(1.03.1912 - 14.12.2011), an outstanding Soviet and Russian scientist and designer in the field of missile and spacecraft control systems. He was born in Lodz and lived in Moscow since 1914. For admission to the institute gained working experience at the aircraft factory. In 1940, graduated from Moscow Power Engineering Institute. In 1945, he led a group of specialists in the study of rocket technology in Germany and then organized the Soviet-German Rocket Institute there. On its basis, the Nordhausen Institute was created with Chief Engineer Sergey Korolev, with whom Chertok later worked side by side in the famous OKB-1 and the Energia association. From 1947 to the end of his life he taught at Moscow State Technical University and MIPT. He created a school that until now defines the scientific directions and the level of Russian space flight technology.

... by Julius Axelrod
(30.05.1912 - 29.12.2004), an outstanding American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize winner 1970 of the year for his discoveries related to the transmission of nervous excitement in organisms with the help of potent chemicals such as adrenaline. The findings have played an important role in understanding the activity of the nervous system and the treatment of mental disorders. He was born in New York, studied and subsequently worked at New York University and in a number of medical centers. During work in the chemical laboratory, as a result of an accident, he lost one eye.

... Mikhail Plotkin
(2.05.1912 - 7.03.1942), Hero of the Soviet Union, guard major, assistant commander of the squadron of the bomber regiment. He became famous for having participated in the first Soviet air raid on Berlin 8 and 9 in August 1941. Mikhail Plotkin was born in Chernihiv region, in the Red Army since 1931. In the battles of World War II from June 1941 year. 7 March 1942 died during a raid on the Koenigsberg port.

... Milton Friedman
(31.07.1912 - 16.11.2006), a prominent American economist, a free market capitalist and an adherent of monetary theory, a Nobel Prize winner for achievements in the field of consumption analysis and a practical demonstration of the complexity of economic stabilization policies. Born in New York, he graduated from Rutgers University and worked for 30 for years at the University of Chicago, where he created the famous school of economists, from which several Nobel laureates emerged. His ideas were used in their economic policies by Reagan, Thatcher, Chinese leaders, and others.

... of Salvador Luria
(13.08.1912 - 6.02.1991), an outstanding American microbiologist, Nobel Prize winner 1969 of the year for his discoveries related to the genetic structure of viruses and their replication mechanisms. He was born in Turin to an old Sephardic Jewish family, studied at the University of Turin, served as an officer in the Italian army for three years, worked at the Radium Institute in Paris, then emigrated to the United States, where he worked at Columbia and Illinois University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

... by Alexander Nudelman
(21.08.1912 - 2.08.1996), an outstanding Soviet designer of military equipment. He was born in Odessa, where he graduated from the Polytechnic Institute. During the war years and later the chief designer of the OKB-16 and design bureau of precision engineering. Aviation cannons, anti-tank guided missiles, anti-aircraft missile systems, etc. were created under his leadership. Twice Hero of Social Work, six-time winner of the USSR State Prize.

... Raoul Wallenberg
(5.08.1912 -?), A Swedish diplomat who saved at least 100 000 Jews during the Holocaust. He was born in Stockholm in one of the richest families in Sweden. Working in the Swedish office in Budapest, he gave many Jews defensive passports with the status of Swedish citizens. He managed to prevent the destruction of the Budapest ghetto, in which there were more than 90 thousands of people. After the occupation of Budapest by Soviet troops, he was arrested and disappeared in Lubyanka.

... Boris Yampolsky (21.08.1912 - 28.01.1972), a Soviet writer who, like no one else, showed the psychology of fear that engulfed people during the years of Stalinism (the novel Moskovskaya Ulitsa, another name is Arbat, regime street). He was born in Moscow, in 1941-m graduated from the Literary Institute. Gorky and during the war was a correspondent for the "Red Star" at the front and in partisan detachments. After the war, he had to write mostly on the table because of censorship. Several of his novels were published in 90's after the writer's death. The Jewish theme is devoted to the story "Fair" and "The Boy with Pigeon Street."

... Kurt Sanderling
(19.09.1912 - 18.09.2011), a famous conductor, born and educated in Germany. After working at the Berlin Opera, he, fleeing from Nazism, emigrated to the USSR in the 1936 year, where from 1942 to 1960 he conducted the orchestra of the Leningrad Philharmonic Society. Returning to Germany, he worked with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and the Dresden Chapel, conducted orchestras in England, Japan and other countries.

... Sit Tal
(8.09.1912 - 17.08.1983), an outstanding Jewish actress and singer, who possessed extraordinary charm, talent and sense of humor (she was called "Raikin in a skirt"). She was born in Chernivtsi and already in 15 years became the leading actress of the theater in Bucharest, where she was subject to all genres. In 1939, Sidi Tal left the pro-fascist Bucharest in the USSR and performed in military hospitals during the war. In 1952, all Jewish theaters in the Soviet Union were closed, but it remained on the stage, for a long time causing the audience to admire its mini-performances.

... Jacob Flier
(21.10.1912 - 18.12.1977), an outstanding Soviet pianist and teacher, a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Born in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1934, two years later won an international competition in Vienna, ahead of second-placed Emil Gilels, and from the 1937 year he taught at the Moscow Conservatory. Among his students are Lev Vlasenko, Victoria Postnikova, Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Feltsman, Rodion Shchedrin and other famous musicians.

... Leonid Kantorovich
(19.12.1912 - 7.04.1986), an outstanding Soviet mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize winner in economics 1975 year for his contribution to the theory of optimal allocation of resources. He graduated from Leningrad University, where he then taught for a long time, worked at the Institute of National Economy Management of the USSR, was one of the organizers of the Siberian Branch of Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Kantorovich created the theory and methods for solving extremal problems based on the theory of linear programming he developed.

... Evgeny Birbraer
(23.07.1912 - 06.10.1943), Hero of the Soviet Union, who was born in Gomel, participated in the Finnish campaign, during the war with Germany, commanded a mortar company, defended Stalingrad, liberated Ukraine. Killed by the death of the brave when forced

Dnipro, repulsing 12 enemy attacks.

An article in the 391 Forum newspaper with illustrations on page 15

http://russianvoice.net/press/forum391.pdf

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