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"Stalinist Ideology and the Lysenko Affair", in Science in Russia and the Soviet Union (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993). Oren Solomon Harman, "C. D. Darlington and the British and American Reaction to Lysenko and the Soviet Conception of Science." Journal of the History of Biology, Vol. 36 No. 2 (New York: Springer, 2003)
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; Russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН)Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk) consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and ...
The word "mech" is a Russian translation of the Romanian "spadă" (sword), which originated with Spătar (Sword-bearer). His elder brother Lev became a prominent geographer and sociologist. [28] In 1856, Metchnikoff entered the Kharkov Lycée, where he developed his interest in biology.
Russian History (Russian: Российская история, romanized: Rossiiskaya istoriia), formerly named History of the USSR (Russian: История СССР, romanized: Istoriia SSSR) (1957–1992) [1] and National History (Russian: Отечественная история, romanized: Otechestvennaia istoriia) (1992–2008), is a journal of the Institute of History of the Russian ...
After Lysenko's monopoly on biology and agronomy had ended, it took many years for these sciences to recover in Russia. Lysenko died in Moscow in 1976, and was ultimately interred in the Kuntsevo Cemetery, [ 58 ] although the Soviet government refused to announce Lysenko's death for two days after the event [ 59 ] and gave his passing only a ...
In: Journal of the History of Biology 39, S. 373–406. Ackert Jr., L. T., The "cycle of life" in ecology: Sergei Vinogradskii's soil microbioloy, 1885–1940. In: Journal of the History of Biology 40, S. 109–145. Russian Academy of Sciences: Biographical note on the 150th birthday of Vasilij Leonidovič Omeljanskij
Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian polymath scientist, inventor, poet and artist, the founder of Moscow State University. At the start of the 18th century the reforms of Peter the Great (founder of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Saint Petersburg State University) and the work of such champions as polymath Mikhail Lomonosov (the founder of Moscow State University) gave a great boost to the ...
Gurwitsch was Professor of Histology and Embryology at Moscow University from 1924 to 1929 but fell afoul of the Communist Party and was forced to relinquish the chair. He then directed a laboratory at the Institute of Experimental Medicine in Leningrad from 1930 until 1945, though he was forced to evacuate during World War 2.