doctoral_advisor death_place death_date children birth_place citizenship ethnicity fields workplaces birth_date spouse residence article_title name alma_mater
ivan schmalhausen johannesburg , south africa 1 september 1997 john b. balinsky , helen david kyiv , russian empire russian 1917-1921 -rrb- ussr -lrb- 1922 -- 1941 -rrb- germany -lrb- empire 1941-1949 -rrb- south africa -lrb- 1950 -- 1983 -rrb- -lrb- 1905-1917 -rrb- ukrainian peoples republic -lrb- ukrainian embryology , entomology kiev university university of the witwatersrand 23 september 1905 catherine singaiivska , elizabeth stengel ussr , germany , united kingdom , south africa boris balinsky
 boris ivan balinsky kiev university
boris balinsky

boris ivan balinsky -lrb- 23 september 1905 kyiv , russian empire - 1 september 1997 , johannesburg , south africa -rrb- was a ukrainian and south african biologist , embryologist , entomologist , professor of kiev university and university of the witwatersrand .
pioneer researcher in the field of experimental embryology , electron microscopy , developmental biology .
he was author of popular textbook in embryology `` introduction to embryology '' .
born ukrainian , student of ivan schmalhausen , he was one of the first to experimentally induce organogenesis in amphibian embryos .
balinsky was full university professor and depury director in institute of biology in kyiv only in his 28 , becoming recognized expert in fish and amphibian development .
being victim of soviet repressions , he remained under german occupation during world war ii and fled to germany .
balinsky briefly worked in scotland in conrad hal waddington laboratoty on mice embryology .
finally , he got to south africa to become one of south african experimental bioscience foundators .
boris balinsky also invested in entomology with newly described species of plecoptera , odonata and moths from pyralidae family , mainly from caucasus and south africa .
