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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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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.