Nora Grigorian is Chief Researcher at the Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Born in 1928 in Nagorny Karabakh, Armenia, she graduated from the Moscow Medical Institute in 1952, receiving her Ph.D. in 1955 and Doct. Sci. in 1986. Since 1955 her research is on the history of physiology. She has published several monographs on the history of scientific schools of physiology in Russia.