100 years pass since birth of prominent ophthalmologist Zarifa Aliyeva

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of prominent ophthalmologist, academician, professor, full member of Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, Zarifa Aliyeva, Report informs.

Zarifa Aliyeva was born on April 28, 1923, in the Sharur district of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.

Academician Zarifa Aliyeva lived a meaningful life as a true intellectual with a rich spirituality and made significant contributions to the development of the medical field in Azerbaijan with her extensive scientific activities.

The scientist's works, which are the successful result of long-term research on topical issues of ophthalmology, have always been highly appreciated.

New and effective treatment methods and complex preventive measures proposed in these studies have been successfully and widely applied in a short period of time. The research center of the school of ophthalmology, which was specialized as the first scientific research laboratory in Azerbaijan, was created on the initiative of academician Zarifa Aliyeva.

Zarifa Aliyeva, who always focused on medical ethics throughout her scientific and pedagogical activities, worked hard to train highly qualified personnel in the republic and formed a great generation of young scientists and ophthalmologists.

In 1947, she graduated from the Azerbaijan State Medical Institute, named after Nariman Narimanov. She worked as a researcher at the Azerbaijan Scientific-Research Institute of Ophthalmology and since 1969, as an associate professor and professor of ophthalmology at the Azerbaijan State Advanced Training Institute for Doctors, named after A. Aliyev, and head of the laboratory of vacation pathology of eye organs, director of the ophthalmology department (1982-1985).

Aliyeva did remarkable things in the development of the science of ophthalmology. She is the author of a lot of capacious research on the analysis of trachoma widespread in Azerbaijan, the top vocational diseases in the world, especially eye diseases connected with the vocational activities in chemical and electron industries, prevention and treatment and the modern problems of ophthalmology, as well as one of the authors of the unique scientific works "Therapeutic ophthalmology" and "The principals of iridodiagnosis". She wrote 12 monographs, manuals, about 150 scientific works, one invention, and 12 rationalization proposals. Zarifa Aliyeva did many things in training high-qualified medical staff.

Academician Zarifa Aliyeva was a member of the Presidium of the All-Union Ophthalmologists society, Soviet Peace Defense Committee, the Executive Board of the Azerbaijani Ophthalmologic Society, and the editorial staff of "The Vestnik ophthalmologu" magazine (Moscow).

She was awarded the price of M.I. Averbach of the Medical Scientific Academy of the USSR (1981) for her high scientific achievements.

Aliyeva died on April 15, 1985, in Moscow. Her corpse was brought from Novo-Devichya cemetery in Moscow to Baku and was buried near her father's grave in the Alley of Honor.