Efim Semyonovich London

LONDON, Efim Semyonovich, born in 1868, is a prominent physiologist and biochemist. In 1894, he graduated from the medical faculty of the University of Warsaw, and since 1896, he has worked at the Institute of Experimental Medicine in Leningrad, first as an assistant to the head of the Department of General Pathology under Lukyanov, and since 1903 as its head. He worked abroad with Emil Fischer. He is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Medical Training and the University of Leningrad. In 1927–28, he worked at the invitation of the Rockefeller Institute in the USA. In his works, London, using specially operated animals, studies primarily the chemical questions of physiology.

He and his collaborators

studied the chemistry of digestion

of an animal existing under completely normal conditions. This method of angiostomy (or vasostomy—see) enabled London to conduct a series of studies on the composition of blood (in particular, the content of hormones) under various conditions. In addition, London was engaged in the study of the physiological action of radium and questions of serology and immunity. London is the author of a large number of works published in various Russian and foreign periodicals, mainly in Zeitschrift für physiologische Chemie (since 1905). Separate editions include: "Das Radium in der Biologie und Medizin" (Leipzig, 1911); "Physiologische u. pathologische Chymologie nebst einigen Versuchen der Chymotherapie" (Leipzig, 1913); "Physiology and Pathology of Digestion" (Moscow–Leningrad, 1924). London is the author of a number of chapters in major collective manuals edited by C. Oppenheimer on biochemistry (Vol. III, Part 2, Jena, 1909) and by E. Abderhalden on biological methods (Abt. 1 und 5, Berlin–Vienna, 1923–27). For articles by London on vasostomy, see the literature to the article Vasostomy.

London is the author of a number of chapters in major collective manuals edited by C. Oppenheimer on biochemistry (Vol. III, Part 2, Jena, 1909) and by E. Abderhalden on biological methods (Abt. 1 und 5, Berlin–Vienna, 1923–27). For articles by London on vasostomy, see the literature to the article Vasostomy.