P rominent t ajik f igures of the

partment of Physiology and Pathology at the Academy of Sciences of
the Soviet Union, Tajikistan Branch. From 1955 to 1971, he was the Di-

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rector of and a Scientific Worker at the Dushanbe Institute of Epide-

meology and Hygiene. Following this he became Director of the Medi-
cal Library of the Ministry of Health and Well-Being of Tajikistan
(1971-81).
Rasulov's research deals with normal physiology, pathophysiology,
and history of medicine. One of his main contributions is a four-volume
dictionary of medical terms. From 1954 until 1982, he was the Chief
Editor of Nigahdorii Tandurustii Tojikiston (Health and Well-Being of
Tajikistan). Rasulov's contributions include Dissertatsii uchionikh
Tadzhikistana po meditsine (Tajik Scholars' Thesis on Medicine,
Dushanbe, 1964, and Meditsinskii slovar' (A Medical Dictionary,
Dushanbe, 1974.
Rasulov became a Distinguished Medical Doctor in 1960. He also
received the Red Banner of Labor, other medals, and the Honorary Or-
der of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.
Rasulov retired in 1981.
Rasulova, Muharram
Tajik botanist Muharram Rasulovna Rasulova was born into a family
of workers in Ichujand on June 17, 1926. She joined the CPSU in 1951.
Between 1941 and 1943, Rasulova was a Laboratory Assistant at a
Leninabad cotton factory. Then, from 1943 until 1945, she was a stu-
dent. From 1945 to 1947, she was a Laboratory Assistant at the
Women's Pedagogical Institute, when she became a Lecturer and Senior
instructor of the Department of Geography of the same institute (1947-
1951). From 1951 to 1958, she began as a post-graduate student and
later became a Scientific Worker. Between 1958 and 1976, she was Di-
rector of the Flora and Taxonomy of the Institute of Botanics of the Re-
public. In 1977, she became the Director of the same institute. She be-
came a member of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan in 1981.
Rasulova's research deals with the flora, taxonomy, and the geogra-
phy of plants in Tajikistan. She has provided botanical descriptions for
over thirty types of beans. Her contributions include Opredelitel' odno-
letnikh bobovikh Tadzhikistana (The One-Year Old Tajik Bean Deter-
minant, Dushanbe, 1967).
Rasulova received the Honorary Order of the Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.

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