Friday, June 26, 2009

Gavriil Abramovich Ilizarov

Gavriil Abramovich Ilizarov (Russian: Гавриил Абрамович Илизаров; 15 June 1921 – 24 July 1992) was a Soviet physician, known for inventing the Ilizarov apparatus for lengthening limb bones and for his eponymous surgery. He was a Hero of Socialist Labor (1981), a winner of the Lenin Prize (1979), and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1991).

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