Balinsky briefly worked in Scotland in Conrad Hal Waddington's laboratory on mice embryology. Being victim of Soviet repressions, he remained under German occupation during World War II and fled to Posnan, Poland and later Munich, Germany.
He became a recognized expert in fish and amphibian development. Balinsky was a full university professor and the deputy director of the Institute of Biology in Kyiv at 28 years of age. He was author of popular textbook in embryology An Introduction to Embryology.īorn Ukrainian, a student of Ivan Schmalhausen, he was one of the first to experimentally induce organogenesis in amphibian embryos. Pioneer researcher in the field of experimental embryology, electron microscopy and developmental biology. Boris Ivan Balinsky (23 September 1905, in Kyiv, Russian Empire – 1 September 1997, in Johannesburg, South Africa) was a Ukrainian and South African biologist, embryologist, entomologist, professor of Kiev University and University of the Witwatersrand.
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