# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/iosif-gitel-son
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:28:09.314Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/iosif-gitel-son"
name: "Iosif Gitel'son"
slug: "iosif-gitel-son"
description: "Josef Isaevich Gitelson was a Soviet and Russian biophysicist. PhD in biology (1955), DrSc in medicine (1961), Professor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1991); Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1979), Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1990). Director of Institute of Biophysics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1984-1996). Academic Advisor at this Institute since 1996. Scientific supervisor of Institute of Fundamental Biology and Biotechnology Siberian Federal University. Member of International Academy of Astronautics. Honorary Citizen of Krasnoyarsk Krai since Sept 20, 2013 and the city of Krasnoyarsk. In 2018, JI Gitelson was awarded the highest award of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lomonosov Gold Medal for the justification and development of the ecological direction of biophysics, which has achieved a number of outstanding fundamental and practical results, in particular, in marine and laboratory studies of bioluminescence."
tagline: "Russian biophysicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Josef_Gitelson_portret.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1928-07-06"
deathDate: "2022-09-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.913043478260867
  historical:           4.808316
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "چوزيف جيتلسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iossif_Issajewitsch_Gitelson"
    title: "Iossif Issajewitsch Gitelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Gitelson"
    title: "Josef Gitelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%A3_%D7%92%D7%99%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%96%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "יוסיף גיטלזון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%98%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%84_%D0%98%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Гительзон, Иосиф Исаевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump