Yevgeniy Chazov

death_place = Moscow, Russia party = Communist Party of the Soviet Union spouse = profession = alma_mater = Kiev Medical Institute awards = Order of Lenin (1969, 1976, 1978, 1981)USSR State Prize (1975)

Biography Chazov was born in 1929. He was a graduate of the Kiev Medical Institute. He was the deputy health minister and appointed minister of health in 1987. he described many circumstances concerning the health of the Soviet leaders and of some leaders of the Soviet satellites.

Research Chazov was one of pioneers of thrombolytic therapy of myocardial infarction.

Nobel Peace Prize Yevgeniy Chazov was a co-founder and co-president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Charged with promoting research on the probable medical, psychological, and biospheric effects of nuclear war, the group was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 10 December 1985. At that time the group represented more than 135,000 members from 41 countries. Many groups protested about the decision to include Chazov, and alleged that Chazov was responsible for some of the Soviet abuses of psychiatry and medicine and for attacks against a 1975 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, the physicist and Soviet dissident Andrei D. Sakharov.

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