Danylo Zabolotny, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Danylo Zabolotny

Ukrainian and Soviet epidemiologist, President of AS of the USSR

Date of Birth: 16-Dec-1866

Place of Birth: Zabolotne, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 15-Dec-1929

Profession: biologist, botanist, microbiologist

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Danylo Kyrylovych Zabolotny (1866 in Chobotarka, Podolia Governorate – 1929) was a Ukrainian epidemiologist and the founder of the world's first research department of epidemiology.
In 1927, he published one of the first texts in his field, Fundamentals of Epidemiology. Zabolotny conducted groundbreaking research on a number of infectious diseases, including cholera, diphtheria, dysentery, plague, syphilis and typhus, as well as on gangrene.