ABSTRACT
Keywords: Academician Nikolai M. Emanuel, free radicals, retardation of aging, the history of gerontology
N.M. Emanuel developed his scientific creativity in times, when tendencies to unite chemistry and physics, and then biology and medicine became more and more strong. Working in the border fields of science, he has developed his own systematic approach, targeted at the understanding of the object entity. Systematism was dominant in his methodology and the style of thinking; he was in the leading group of scientists who originally and systematically developed the method of control for chemical reactions by effecting on the early stages of initiation [1]. The scientific potential of works of that period is far not exhausted by the problems of chemical kinetics. The fruitful ideas in this field formed the theoretical foundation for a broad cycle of
works on biology in 1960 - 1980ies. Nikolai M. Emanuel has repeatedly outlined that "kinetics as the science about the laws and mechanisms of various process development in the nature has in biology almost unlimited prospects for theoretical investigation and practical applications. Any pathological process in the living organism regularly develops with time; the opposite development and suppression of pathological states under the influence of one or another effective impacts is regular to the same extent".
