A MILITARY PHYSICIAN NIKOLAY NIKOLAEVICH FINOGENOV -HARBINGER OF ONCOIMMUNOLOGY
Nikolai Nikolaevich Finogenov (1869-1948) - Russian military physician from prof. S. P. Fedorov's Clinic at the Emperor's Military Medical Academy, who obtained and published first pathological evidences for P. Ehrlich's concept of anti-tumor immune surveillance, just proclaimed (1909). He was a practitioner, and his entire subsequent career proceeded beyond science, in the applied field of Military Medicine. Due to the decades of information disunity between culture and science of our Motherland and other leading scientific powers caused by social disasters of early XX century, the prime legacy of N. N. Finogenov in the field of Oncoimmunology was forgotten or not even known outside of the Russian-speaking countries. The article describes his life and works on the background of historical events - in order to restore N. N. Finogenov's scientific priority (5 figs, bibliography: 25 refs).