Professor Leonid Moiseevich Golber (on the occasion of his 90th birthday)

Abstract

In February 1999, the 90th anniversary of the birth of a prominent Russian scientist and pathophysiologist Professor Leonid Moiseevich Golber was celebrated. L. M. Golber devoted almost 70 years to the service of Russian medical science, while still in his student years he published a number of works on the role of the endocrine system in the pathogenesis of gallstone disease. Since then, all his scientific activities have been associated with the problems of endocrinology and metabolism. His fundamental research on the humoral relationship between the spleen and liver made a significant contribution to the doctrine of the hepatolienal system.