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In memoriam Prof. A. G. RODINA On May 30, 1966, Professor A. G. RODIKA, one of the outstanding workers in the field of microbiology and hydrobiology, died in Leningrad. A. G. RODINA was born on March 24, 1901, in the town of Borovitchy. I n 1924 she graduated from the Leningrad University where she studied microbiology under Prof. B. L. ISACHENKO. From 1924 to 1934 A. G. RODINA worked in the State Hydrological Institute. This period of RODINA'S scientific work was devoted mainly to investigations of the microbiology of lakes. From 1937 until her last days she worked in the Hydrobiological Department of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Here she started research work on the biological productivity of water bodies, developing a microbiological approach to these problems. Her motto was: "Microbiology is an organic link of hydrobiological research". With this aim in view she widely used and popularized the method of ultrafiltration and direct acounts of bacteria. She compiled tables of direct count data expressed as weight units, and started the study of aquatic biocoenoses using a method of their graphic representation. The investigations were undertaken by her

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Author

W. Shadin

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Ltd.; Wiley (ISSN 1434-2944)

Published

1967

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)