Aleksandr Vladimirovich Palladin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Палла́дин; Ukrainian: Олександр Володимирович Палладін, 10 September 1885 – 6 December 1972) was a Soviet and Ukrainian biochemist, professor and academician. He is known for establishing the Palladin Institute of Biochemistry and heading the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the post World War II period. Aleksandr was born in a family of the Russian academician and biochemist Vladimir Palladin and was a student of a Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov. After graduating Saint Petersburg State University in 1908, next year Palladi