Angelina Konstantinovna Guskova (for the 100th Anniversary of her Birth)

Angelina Konstantinovna Guskova (1924–2015), Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Laureate of the Lenin Prize, Honoured Scientist of the RSFSR, and Laureate of the Sievert Prize, devoted more than 50 years of her professional career to work at the A.I. Burnazyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center.

Born on 29 March 1924 into the family of a physician and a pianist, she graduated from the Sverdlovsk State Medical Institute in 1946 and completed her residency in neurology and neurosurgery. Her early professional activity was associated with medical institutions in Chelyabinsk-40 (Ozersk), where she gained pioneering clinical experience in diagnosing and treating acute and chronic radiation sickness among personnel of Plutonium Combine No. 817.

From 1957, A.K. Guskova worked at the Institute of Biophysics in Moscow, later heading the Radiology Department of the Institute of Occupational Hygiene and Occupational Diseases of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. In 1974, she returned to the Institute of Biophysics as Head of the Clinical Department. Under her leadership, innovative methods for diagnosis, severity prediction, and treatment of radiation syndromes were developed and implemented, which played a crucial role in the medical response to the Chornobyl nuclear power plant accident in 1986.

A.K. Guskova authored more than 200 scientific publications, including 11 monographs and numerous chapters in specialized manuals. Her most significant works include *Human Radiation Disease* (1971), *Guidelines for Organisation of Medical Care for Persons Exposed to Radiation* (1986), *Medical Assistance Given to Personnel of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after the 1986 Accident* (1996), and *Guidelines for Radiation Medicine* (2001). Her scientific legacy remains fundamental to the development of radiation medicine and occupational health.

A.K. Guskova, nuclear industry, biophysics, radiation sickness, neurology, hematology, leukemia, Chernobyl accident, occupational hygiene, clinic, local radiation lesions