Danylo Zabolotny
Danylo Zabolotny.
Danylo Kyrylovych Zabolotny (1866, 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.
| Preceded by Vladimir Lipsky |
President of NANU 1928–1929 |
Succeeded by Oleksandr Bohomolets |