Ivan Solomonovich Beritashvili, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ivan Solomonovich Beritashvili

Georgian physiologist

Date of Birth: 29-Dec-1884

Place of Birth: Vejini, Kakheti, Georgia

Date of Death: 29-Dec-1974

Profession: physiologist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Ivan Solomonovich Beritashvili, also I.
Beritov or J.
Beritoff (????? ?????????–?? ??????????? in Georgian, ???? ??????????? ??????????? (???????) in Russian; December 19, 1884 – December 29, 1974), was one of the great Soviet and Georgian physiologists, one of the founders of the modern biobehavioral science. He was a founder and director of a school of physiology in Georgia; academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1939), founding member 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 award.
For more than a half-century of his activity, Beritashvili was considered a leader among neurophysiologists of Central and Eastern European countries and the former Soviet Union.
In the study of higher brain functions he tried to bridge the gap between physiology and psychology and did much to bring them closer together.
In 1958–1960 together with Herbert Jasper and Henri Gastaut, he was one of the founders of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO).