Orlov Boris Nikolaevich (b. September 2, 1935) — head of the Department of Physiology and Biochemistry of Animals at the State Agricultural Academy. Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor. Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation.
Education
Lobachevsky University (1960), biologist-physiologist.
Main areas of scientific work
Ecological, chemical, and physical factors of evolution. Natural biologically active substances (beekeeping products, zootoxins). Biological effects of electromagnetic radiation.
Main directions, schools
Natural biologically active substances of animal origin, a scientific school in zootoxinology (zootoxins, beekeeping products).
Key facts of his career
Published 400 scientific works, including 20 monographs, textbooks, and study guides. Holds a diploma for the scientific discovery "The regularity of the informational effect of natural-intensity microwave electromagnetic radiation on the circannual rhythms of living organisms" (2003, Moscow), 30 author's certificates and patents, about 10 of which have been implemented in agriculture, beekeeping, experimental biology, and medicine. Under his supervision, about 50 doctoral and candidate dissertations have been defended. Editor-in-chief of periodical scientific publications on zootoxinology and beekeeping. Participant in 15 international beekeeping congresses and apitherapy symposiums.
Membership in scientific societies
Full member (academician) of three international public academies. Deputy chairman of the interdepartmental scientific-methodological council on apidology, member of the bureau of the beekeeping section of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, chairman of the doctoral dissertation council at the Nizhny Novgorod State Agricultural Academy.
Awards
Laureate of the State Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation, Honored Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation, holder of the Order of "Peter the Great" of the European Academy of Natural Sciences (Hannover, Germany), the "Veteran of Labor" medal, the honorary badge "Inventor of the USSR".