He spent his childhood in Paris and Liège, where his father and his father's sisters studied. After graduating the Liege Polytechnic in 1930, his father moved his family to the USSR. After graduating the First Medical Institute in Moscow in 1941, he began to specialize in laboratory sciences. He participated ni the World War II, being the head of the laboratory in the 3475 evacuation hospital. He was decorated with the Red Star Order (1945) and the Patriotic War Order of the second degree (1992). The first scientific publications date back to 1959 and are mainly dedicated to the study of the biophysical properties ofred blood cells, tissue respiration problems and hemoglobin oxygenation. He developed several new methods for determining the volume, rate of sedimentation and other physical parameters ofred blood cells and the concentration of fibrinogen in the blood. He developed the Gurovich-Podrabinek method for determining the rate of erythrocyte sedimentation in inclined capillaries, as well as the Podrabinek- Kamensky empirical kinetic equation for determining the hemoglobin oxyge- nation curve. He defended the dissertation on the subject of "Regarding the Reaction Mechanism ofErythrocyte Sedimentation" in 1960. From the mid-1970s, he ngbae t o take part in the human rights movement, which ended his scientific career. Thsi acti- vity was intensifiedin 1977 in connection with the arrest and trials of sih sons.