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Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov ForMemRS, [3] HFRSE (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Вави́лов, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ vɐˈvʲiləf] ⓘ; 25 November [O.S. 13 November] 1887 – 26 January 1943) was a Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist who identified the centers of origin of cultivated plants.
Nikolai Vavilov (Russian: Николай Вавилов) is a 1990 6-part biographical television film. Joint production of the USSR and East Germany. Joint production of the USSR and East Germany. Biopic devoted to the history of the life of Soviet biologist, academician Nikolai Vavilov .
The famous Soviet geneticist and president of the Agriculture Academy, Nikolai Vavilov, was arrested in 1940 and died in prison in 1943. [38] In 1936, the American geneticist Hermann Joseph Muller , who had moved to the Leningrad Institute of Genetics with his Drosophila fruit flies, was criticized as bourgeois, capitalist, imperialist, and a ...
Grigory Levitsky. Grigory Andreyevich Levitsky (19 November 1878 – 20 May 1942) was a Ukrainian and Soviet plant cytogeneticist. He worked along with Nikolai Vavilov who examined the role of mitochondria in plant heredity while also studying polyploidy and mutations.
Barulina and her son with Vavilov (Yuri, born 1928) returned to Saratov where they spent the rest of World War II in great poverty. Not knowing that her husband had also been moved to a prison in Saratov, Barulina sent food parcels for him to Moscow, which never reached him. [3] Vavilov died in 1943 but was rehabilitated in 1955. Barulina was ...
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Nikolai Vavilov, botanist and geneticist, gathered the world's largest collection of plant seeds, identified the centres of origin of main cultivated plants; Vladimir Vernadsky, founded biogeochemistry, pioneered research into the noosphere; Olga Vinogradova, accomplished neuroscientist
Harry Harlan was a friend of the famous Russian plant breeding expert Nikolai Vavilov, and at the age of fifteen Jack Harlan met Vavilov when the latter stayed at the Harlan house during an international conference. This meeting inspired Jack to become a plant collector himself, and plans were made for him to travel to Russia after finishing ...