N.I. Vavilov

<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Nikolai I. Vavilov was born into the family of a merchant in Moscow on November 25, 1887. In 1911,<br />having graduated from the Agricultural Institute, Vavilov continued to work at the Department of Agriculture<br />Proper headed by Prof. Pryanishnikov. In 1911–1912 Vavilov did practical work at the Bureau for Applied<br />Botany and at the Bureau of Mycology and Phytopathology of the Agricultural Scientifi c Committee. In<br />1913–1914, Vavilov traveled to Europe where he studied plant immunity, mostly with Prof. W. Bateson, a<br />co-founder of the science of genetics.<br />In autumn 1917 the Head of the Bureau for Applied Botany Robert. E. Regel (1867–1920) supported<br />the nomination of N.I. Vavilov, a young professor from the Saratov Higher Agricultural Courses,</div>

N.I. Vavilov

Nikolai I. Vavilov was born into the family of a merchant in Moscow on November 25, 1887. In 1911, having graduated from the Agricultural In...

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Centers of Origin of Cultivated Plants (1926)

<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />N.I.Vavilov was a prominent organizer of science. In the period from 1922 to 1929 he headed the Institute<br />of Experimental Agronomy (the former ASC) which developed in 1930 into the V.I. Lenin All-Union<br />Academy of Agriculture; from 1930 to 1935 Vavilov was its fi rst president. From 1930 to 1940 he was<br />director of the Institute of Genetics. Vavilov organized and participated in signifi cant home and international<br />scientifi c meetings and congresses on botany, genetics and plant breeding, agricultural economy, and the<br />history of science. All around the world N.I. Vavilov has gained respect and renown; he was elected member<br />of many academies of sciences and various foreign scientifi c societies.<br />Vavilov, the symbol of glory of the national science, is at the same time the symbol of its tragedy. As<br />early as the beginning of the 1930s his scientifi c programs were being deprived of governmental support. In<br />the stifl ing atmosphere of a totalitarian state, the institute headed by Vavilov turned into a resistance point to<br />the pseudo-scientifi c concepts of Trofi m D. Lysenko (died 1977). Lysenko introduced the discredited notion<br />that acquired characters could be inherited and took Soviet genetics and plant breeding back 20 years. As<br />a result of this controversy and Stalin’s support of Lysenko, Vavilov was arrested in August 1940, and his<br />closest associates were also sacked and imprisoned.<br />Vavilov’s life ceased in the city where his star had once risen. He died in the Saratov prison of dystrophia<br />on 26 January 1943 and was buried in a common prison grave. Nevertheless, the memory of Vavilov<br />has been preserved by his followers. During that tragic period they kept on gathering Vavilov’s manuscripts,<br />documents and pictures. Since mid-1950s, after the offi cial rehabilitation of Vavilov, hundreds of books<br />and articles devoted to his life and scientifi c accomplishments have been published. Memorial displays<br />have been opened in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Saratov, and Poltava. The name of Vavilov is born by the<br />Russian Society of Geneticists and Breeders, the Institute of General Genetics of the Academy of Sciences,<br />the Institute of Plant Industry, and the Saratov Agricultural Institute.</div>

Centers of Origin of Cultivated Plants (1926)

N.I.Vavilov was a prominent organizer of science. In the period from 1922 to 1929 he headed the Institute of Experimental Agronomy (the form...

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Animal Geography

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Animal Geography

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