death_date birth_place citizenship fields birth_date known_for residence article_title name alma_mater
7 december 1964 saint petersburg russian pathology 1885 atherosclerosis research russia nikolay anichkov
 nikolay nikolaevich anichkov imperial military medical academy , st. petersburg
nikolay anichkov

nikolay nikolaevich anichkov -lrb- , often spelled `` anitschkow '' in german literature -rrb- -lrb- 1885 , saint petersburg -- 1964 -rrb- was a prominent pathologist of russian heritage .
anichkov first described the specialized myocardial cells -lrb- anitschkow cell , cardiac histiocyte -rrb- and discovered the significance and role of cholesterol in atherosclerosis pathogenesis .
in 1958 , in an editorial in `` annals of internal medicine '' , william dock compared the significance of the classic work of anichkov to that of the discovery of the tubercle bacillus by robert koch .
american biochemist d. steinberg wrote : `` if the full significance of his findings had been appreciated at the time , we might have saved more than 30 years in the long struggle to settle the cholesterol controversy and anitschkow might have won a nobel prize '' .
anichkov elaborated on the doctrines of reticuloendothelial system and autogenic infections .
