We continue to talk about the employees of the IEE RAS who participated in the Great Patriotic War.
Korzhuev Petr Aleksandrovich after graduating from Moscow State University began working at the Institute of Blood Transfusion. With the beginning of the war, he volunteered for the front and served first as a private in the 1st rifle division, the sanitary department of the 3rd Belorussian Front, then he was awarded the rank of captain, and later - major of the medical service. In the army, Petr Alekseevich headed the Blood Service and was an assistant to the chief surgeon of the front. Already in 1941, two of his works were published, dedicated to the respiratory function of blood. He continued this work after demobilization in 1945.
He was awarded medals: "For the capture of Koenigsberg", "For the defense of Moscow", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree. In peacetime, he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor. In 1949, he defended his doctoral dissertation, and in 1950, he received the A.N. Severtsov Prize. He published his first work in 1932. In total, more than 240 of his works were published.
Petr Aleksandrovich wrote the following about himself:
“After graduating from university, I began working at the Institute of Blood Transfusion. When the war began, I volunteered for the front and initially served as a private.
Later, as a blood specialist, I was appointed captain of the blood service, first on an army scale, and then on the front, and became an assistant to the chief surgeon. After the end of the war and demobilization, I returned to scientific work. I was developing measures to preserve the Caspian sturgeon stock. I managed to put forward a number of proposals that later formed the basis for developing pools for growing caviar at fish factories in the country. At the same time, I wrote two theoretical articles on the problem of osmoregulation in the origin of warm-blooded animals. Now, in science, specialization of scientific work is clearly evident: everyone closes in on their own narrow field and solves their own narrow problem.
While real scientists and major scientific works are characterized by a broad, comprehensive coverage of scientific problems, my main and fundamental problem is to identify the effect of gravity in the evolution of life on our planet and the influence of this factor on the evolution of vertebrates. My second major work is the study of the respiratory functions of blood. For this, I was awarded the Academician A.N. Severtsov Prize."