Huge loss for Bulgaria. A brilliant scientist is gone
Huge loss for Bulgaria. A brilliant scientist is gone. The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is deeply saddened to announce that on February 22, 2022, Corresponding Member Yordan Yordanov.
He was one of the most popular and recognized Bulgarian scientists in the fields of physical anthropology, paleoanthropology, paleopathology, morphology of the human skeletal system, medical and applied anthropology.
Creator of the original methods for determining the biological age of man, for the quantitative assessment of the manifestation of the asymmetry of the right person and for establishing new dependencies between the individual facial sizes, reminded by BAS.
Corresponding Member Yordan Yordanov was born on November 6, 1938. He graduated from the Faculty of Dentistry of the Higher Medical Institute – Sofia with a degree in orthopedic dentistry with orthodontics (1965) and human anatomy (1973). In 1972 he was awarded the degree of “Candidate of Biological Sciences”, and in 1980 he became a “Doctor of Medical Sciences”. He is a regular member of the Bulgarian National Medical Association (1995), Bulgaria’s representative in the European Anthropological Association (1990), a member of the International Association for Identification (with an academy in the USA) since 1987.
Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) since 2004, longtime director of the Institute of Experimental Morphology, Pathology and Anthropology with a museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
He is the author and creator of the National Anthropological Museum and the only permanent anthropological exhibition in Bulgaria “The Man in the Past”.
Corresponding Member Yordanov was chairman of the Bulgarian Anatomical Society and the Bulgarian Anthropological Society, author of 26 monographs, 360 scientific publications, over 70 plastic anthropological reconstructions of the skull head.
Plastic reconstructions (restorations of soft tissues on the skull), from Art. Yordanov, are known throughout Bulgaria – the Thracian princess from Vratsa, Ichirguboil Mostich from the time of Simeon the Great, Tsar Kaloyan, Tsar Samuel, a series of figures of the Renaissance and the liberation movement such as Bacho Kiro, Rakovski, Karavelov, Zahariy Stoyanov and others.
Corresponding Member Yordanov was awarded various prizes and distinctions, including the medal “1300 Years of Bulgaria”, the Adamic Prize of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 2000, the Marin Drinov Medal in 2003 and the Merit to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2007).
With the death of Corresponding Member Yordan Yordanov we are losing a versatile scientist and patriot, a phenomenon of Bulgarian and world science, with a broad culture and erudition, a wonderful and beloved teacher, who left behind worthy heirs.
A tribute to his bright memory!
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