Alexander Gavrilovich Gurvich (1874–1954): A Short Biographical Sketch Dedicated to the 150th Anniversary of His Birth

The article is devoted to some pages of the biography of the famous Russian biologist Alexander Gavrilovich Gurvich (1874Gurvich ( -1954)).The material was his writings, as well as biographical studies about him and biological works, which in one way or another touched upon the biographical aspects of the scientist.The methodology is based on methods of historiographical and biographical analysis, methods of classification and synthesis.A.G. Gurvich became famous, first of all, as a researcher of ultra-low energies of living beings (biofield, biophotogenesis, etc.), as well as as an embryologist and cytologist, namely, as the discoverer of micro-emissions of living organisms, which he called mitogenesis and biofield.Having high-quality education and practical training in Germany, Gurvich in the early twentieth century moved to Russia, where he makes his major discoveries.Having received a house, a vegetable garden and a garden for experiments from the Soviet government, he worked productively and described the results of his experiments in scientific papers; his wife Lidia Dmitrievna, and later his eldest daughter Anna Alexandrovna, helped him in this matter.For most of his life, he worked at the Taurida University (Frunze Crimean University), where he created his most significant microbiological discoveries.At the end of his life, he headed the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences for five years, but a discrepancy in scientific views with representatives of the Marxist Michurinsky agrobiology (first of all, with T.D. Lysenko) led to his resignation and retirement in 1948.