TO THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF ANDREI (JĘ Ę DRZEJ) Ę Ś NIADECKI – AN OUTSTANDING BIOLOGIST, CHEMIST, PHYSICIAN, TEACHER AND PUBLIC FIGURE

Abstract

A brief review of the scientific activities of an outstanding biologist, chemist, physician and health care organizer, Professor of the Vilna University, Academician of the St. Petersburg Medical-Surgical Academy Andrei (Jędrzej) Śniadecki, whose life is closely connected with Grodno region. Numerous scientific events are devoted in 2018 to the memory of the founder of the theory of epigenesis, the Sniadecki heritage and the modern interpretation of the role of epigenesis in normal conditions and pathology.

Keywords

• professor Andrei (Jędrzej) Śniadecki
• history of medicine
• theory of epigenesis
• Vilna University