1. Platon Hryhorovych Kostiuk was a Soviet and Ukrainian physiologist, neurobiologist, electrophysiologist, and biophysicist.
14 Facts About Platon Kostiuk
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Platon Kostiuk was a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Platon Kostiuk was a director of the Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology and the International Center of Molecular Physiology NAS of Ukraine; chair of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Kyiv branch, vice-president of the NAS of Ukraine, and chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR.
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Platon Kostiuk was born in Kyiv to the family of the Ukrainian psychologist Hryhoriy Kostiuk.
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Platon Kostiuk entered Stalingrad University to study biology and Roman philology.
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Platon Kostiuk was later evacuated to Siberia, where he studied medicine till 1945.
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Platon Kostiuk worked on his doctoral thesis in Danylo Vorontsov's laboratory of physiology.
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In 1958, Platon Kostiuk became Head of the Department of General Nervous System Physiology at the Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology.
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Platon Kostiuk was the first to introduce microelectrode studies of the nervous system in the USSR.
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Platon Kostiuk was the first to prove directly the presence of calcium channels in neuronal cell membranes.
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Platon Kostiuk proposed an original hypothesis on calcium channels' selectivity mechanism.
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Platon Kostiuk was a vice-president of the International Union for Physiologycal Sciences from 1989 to 1993.
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Platon Kostiuk students established Platon Kostiuk Foundation to support young scientists and promote physiological research in Ukraine.
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Platon Kostiuk published more than 1000 scientific papers in Ukrainian, Russian, and English.