R. P. Vynogradova, V. M. Danilova

Palladin Institute of Biochemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv;
e-mail: valdan@biochem.kiev.ua

The article presents the information about the life and scientific activity of the Palladin Prize laureats. In 1983, M. Ye. Kucherenko (1939-2007) was awarded for the mohnograph “Biological methylation and its modification in the early stage of ionizing radiation injury“. In 1984, G. V.  Troitskiy (1913-1992) and O. P.  Demchenko (born in 1944)became the Palladin Prize laureates  for the series of works “The study of protein structure” and  for the monograph “Ultraviolet spectrophotometry and  protein structure” (K.:Naukova Dumka, 1981), respectively.

Keywords: conformational changes in proteins, immunoglobulins and albumin in pathology, optical methods in the study of proteins, three-dimensional protein structure