title: [N. A. Umov's physicomechanical model of living matter (on the 150th anniversary of his birth)].
abstract: In 1901, N. A. Umov described his physicomechanical model of living matter and later continued to develop it as the most important element of his scientific picture of the world. The model contains a definition of life, an indication of the source of living matter activity, analysis of the entropy to evolution ratio and the role of entropy in the evolution of psychics, and the principles of theoretical biology, including the principle of preservation of the amount of living matter during evolution. The Universe as a whole is proposed as a guarantor of life origin.
authors.forename: E N
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: Mirzoian
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D019277:Entropy; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D019369:Life; D008954:Models, Biological; D000069497:Origin of Life; D010825:Physics / Q000266:history*