Because of claims of unreliability and a lack of research data supporting its use, Kirlian photography is not recognized as a legitimate diagnostic tool by the mainstream medical community.

Semyon Davidovich Kirlian was born in 1898.

Semyon Davidovich Kirlian died in 1978.

Kirlian Selections was created on 2005-04-05.

Kirlian photography is generally said to have originated with the work of a pair of Soviet scientists, Semyon and Valentina Kirlian, beginning around 1939.