Ivan Solomonovich Beritashvili

Ivan Solomonovich Beritashvili, also I. Beritov or J. Beritoff (ივანე სოლომონის–ძე ბერიტაშვილი in Georgian, Иван Соломонович Бериташвили (Беритов) in Russian; December 19, 1884 – December 29, 1974), was one of the great Soviet and Georgian physiologists, one of the fall of the present biobehavioral knowledge.[1] He was a founder and director of a school of physiology in Georgia; academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1939), founding clause of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1944) and of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR (1941). In 1964 Beritashvili received Hero of Socialist Labor crown.[2] For more than a half-hundred of his activity, Beritashvili was considered a conductor among neurophysiologists of Central and Eastern European countries and the former Soviet Union. In the meditation of higher conceive functions he proven to bridge the hiatus between physiology and psycho