Aaron Bodansky [SEP] occupation
Aaron Bodansky
Aaron Bodansky (1887 in Elizabethgrad – 1960) was a Russian-born American biochemist remembered for describing the Bodansky unit in the measurement of alkaline phosphatase in blood.
Bodansky was born in Russia in 1887 and emigrated to the United States in 1904, followed in the next two years by his parents and siblings. He studied biochemistry at Cornell University, earning a Ph.D. in 1921 with a thesis titled "Enzyme studies on solanum elaeagnifolium". In 1926, Bodansky was hired into the laboratory division of the Hospital
Bodansky unit
The Bodansky unit is an obsolete measure of alkaline phosphatase concentration in blood. It is defined as "the quantity of alkaline phosphatase that liberates 1mg of phosphate ion during the first hour of incubation with a buffered substrate containing sodium β-glycerophosphate." This technique was the first test to measure blood alkaline phosphatase levels, and was developed by Aaron Bodansky in the early 1930s.
Other units that were used in the past as a measure of blood alkaline phosphatase levels are King-Armstrong units, Kind-