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	CERN Courier - Sergei Vavilov: luminary of - IOP Publishing - article
		Vavilov served in various technical regiments, but by the end of 1917 the Russian front had collapsed because of the revolution and he was taken prisoner.
		Vavilov analysed all the measurements and arrived at the firm conclusion: "This is not a luminescence, this is a new optical phenomenon not known to science." He also presented a first explanation - that the new radiation was produced by Compton electrons knocked out from the atoms of the liquid by gamma rays.
		Vavilov shielded the head of the Optics Division, Grigori Landsberg, the head of the Theory Division, Tamm (whose brother, the chief engineer of the chemical factory, was arrested), and others; he wrote directly to the chief prosecutor when Sergei Rytov, head of the Radiophysics Division, was arrested in 1937 (he was released in 1939).
	www.cerncourier.com /main/article/44/9/25 (3218 words)

	Nikolai Vavilov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (Николай Иванович Вавилов, November 25/(November 13), 1887— January 26, 1943) was a prominent Russian botanist and geneticist.
		The standard botanical author abbreviation Vavilov is applied to species he described.
		The USSR Academy of Sciences established the Vavilov Award (1965) and the Vavilov Medal (1968).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nikolai_Vavilov (374 words)

	Nikolai I. Vavilov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nikolai I. Vavilov was born into the family of a merchant in Moscow on November 25, 1887.
		Vavilov, the symbol of glory of the national science, is at the same time the symbol of its tragedy.
		The name of Vavilov is born by the Russian Society of Geneticists and Breeders, the Institute of General Genetics of the Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Plant Industry, and the Saratov Agricultural Institute.
	www.vir.nw.ru /history/vavilov.htm (1017 words)

	The Voice of Russia (People and events: Russia in Personalities)
		Nikolai Vavilov was born on November 25, 1887 into the family of a reasonably wealthy businessman.
		Nikolai Vavilov never did and, although he died when he was only 55 years old, he left behind a whopping 350 treatises on genetics, biology, geography and selection.
		Nikolai Vavilov was one of the few Russian scholars who braved the rigors of the 1917 October revolution and the Civil War that followed, and stayed on to work in Russia.
	www.vor.ru /Events/program3.html (690 words)

	AllRefer.com - Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (Horticulture, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov[nyikulI´ EvA´nuvich vuvE´luf] Pronunciation Key, 1887–1943?, Russian botanist and geneticist.
		Vavilov divided cultivated plants into those that were domesticated from wild forms, e.g., oats and rye, and those known only in the cultivated form, e.g., corn.
		After the ouster and death of Lysenko, Vavilov's work regained prestige in the Soviet Union.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/VavilovN.html (314 words)

	Nikolai Ivanovitch Vavilov Biography / Biography of Nikolai Ivanovitch Vavilov World of Genetics Biography
		Vavilov concluded that the place of origin for any cultivated plant could be found in the region where varieties of the plant's non--cultivated relatives were most prolific and best adapted.
		Although Vavilov received great acclaim from the international scientific community for his contributions to the study and understanding of botanical populations, his academic standing in the Soviet Union was later shattered by followers of Trofim Desnovich Lysenko (1898-1976), the government's Director of Genetics.
		Vavilov was arrested and sent to a concentration camp for political prisoners near Saratov.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-nikolai-ivanovitch-vavilov-wog (685 words)

	Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry
		The N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Plant Industry is the world's first seed bank and one of the world's largest collections of plant genetic material.
		Nikolai I. Vavilov, a Russian biologist, botanist and geneticist, was nominated for the directorship of the Bureau by its founder, Robert E. Regel, in 1917.
		Vavilov was the foremost plant geographer of his time and took part in over 100 collecting missions to 64 countries, besides his tireless work within Russia, at the Institute and other scientific organizations.
	www.ecobooks.com /authors/vavilov.htm (1148 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After the 1917 revolution Vavilov's father (who was a member of the extremely right monarchic Union of the Russian People) refused to recognize the Soviet government and in a year's time left for Bulgaria, while his wife and sons remained in Russia.
		Nikolai Vavilov continued his studies even in the difficult years of civil war and ruin in the country, considering that science could not be abandoned no matter what occurred around him.
		In 1935, Nikolai Vavilov was demoted from the presidency of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences to the vice-presidency, with the following step being to cancel celebrations to mark the anniversary of his Institute of Plant Growing and his own scientific activity.
	www.smcm.edu /aldiv/Drama/season/vavilovbio.htm (1110 words)

	SeedQuest - Central information website for the global seed industry
		The Vavilov Research Institute in St Petersburg, Russia, is one of the world's most important repositories of plant genetic resources, but it is in a rundown and fragile condition.
		The institute's seed collections were largely built by Nikolai Vavilov, a Russian biologist, botanist and geneticist, who scoured five continents in the 1920s and 1930s for wild and cultivated corn, potato tubers, grains, beans, fodder, fruits and vegetable seeds.
		Vavilov became a victim of the purges, and died in prison in 1943.
	www.seedquest.com /News/releases/2004/october/10191.htm (951 words)

	The Moscow News
		According to Vavilov, the most ancient areas of agriculture were not in the river valleys of Egypt, Mesopotamia or along the Ganges, as scholars had believed earlier, but in the mountainous parts of Ethiopia, Central Asia, China and India, and also in the Andes in South America.
		Not only was this the city where he had worked in his early years, but his family, which had absolutely no information as to his whereabouts, was evacuated to this city and lived in a house just a stone's throw away from the prison unaware that their husband and father was there.
		At least Nikolai Vavilov's name was cleared, and his works began to be published again in the country in the 1960s.
	english.mn.ru /english/issue.php?2002-46-10 (1188 words)

	Vegetable Seeds UK - Heirloom Vegetable Seeds
		Vavilov was born into a family of merchants at Moscow on November 25th, 1887 and soon began a life-long love affair with cultivated plants.
		In August of 1940, Nikolai Vavilov was imprisoned and sentenced to death due to the accusations of Lysenko.
		Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov was truly a man ahead of his time - a pioneer among organic gardeners and seed-savers whose words and ideas still have a place in the world.
	www.seedfest.co.uk /resources/vavilov/vavilov.html (547 words)

	Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (Russian Сергей Иванович Вавилов) (March 12, 1891–January 25, 1951) was a Soviet physicist, the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences from July 1945 until his death, and the brother of Nikolai Vavilov.
		Vavilov founded the Soviet school of physical optics, known by his works in luminescence.
		Letter from Vavilov to Lavrenty Beria concerning the state of Soviet astronomy, requesting the release of an astronomer
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sergey_Vavilov (185 words)

	Food for Thought
		Vavilov also recognized that all the world’s food crops, however widely people have carried them, originated in specific places.
		Vavilov, ironically, during World War II died of starvation in one of Stalin’s prisons.
		According to Nikolai Vavilov, America was among the poorest lands on Earth in native food plants.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=3841 (2057 words)

	Vavilov
		At this Institute Vavilov studied in diverse disciplines, and published on the molluscan predators (snails, slugs) of plants in the Moscow province.
		In prison, Vavilov was subjected to severe interrogations - a total duration of 1,700 hours - and was eventually sentenced to death in July 1941, later reduced to twenty years in a death cell, underground and without windows.
		All evidence of Vavilov’s tenure at the Moscow headquarters of the Academy was removed by his fellow scientists on his arrest, and remained hidden until Stalin had died and Beria was replaced in the 1950s.
	www.tagari.com /PermInst/BillsArticles_IndividualPages/PreCursPerm_2_Vavilov.htm (1271 words)

	Chrono-Biographical Sketch: Nikolai Vavilov
		Vavilov's is one the saddest stories of twentieth century science.
		By all accounts a man of truly extraordinary energy, intellectual powers, and charismatic personality, were it not for the backward Lamarckian theories of T. Lysenko and their support by the Soviet authorities he might have lived a full life and been destined regard as the greatest crop geneticist and plant geographer of the twentieth century.
		In 1955, after the death of Stalin, Vavilov's name was cleared of wrong-doing and he has since been recognized for what he clearly was, "a symbol of the best aspects of Soviet science, and a martyr for scientific truth" (DSB, Vol.
	www.wku.edu /~smithch/chronob/VAVI1887.htm (376 words)

	GRDC - Research Summaries - International research review: Russia
		The N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Plant Industry based in St Petersburg Russia, is the world's first seed bank and one of the world's largest collections of plant genetic material.
		Named after Nikolai I Vavilov, a Russian biologist, botanist and geneticist, the Institute's seed collections were largely built by Vavilov who scoured five continents in the 1920s and 1930s for wild and cultivated corn, potato tubers, grains, beans, fodder, fruits and vegetable seeds.
		Vavilov is a recent source of valuable cereal and pulse germplasm for Australian breeders.
	www.grdc.com.au /growers/res_summ/russia.htm (1429 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Higher \| Putin threat to $8 trillion gene treasure
		The Nikolai Vavilov Institute of Plant Growing and Research, situated on St Isaac's Square in St Petersburg, one of Russia's most historic squares, is one of four buildings that Moscow has ordered to be vacated to make room for government offices and accommodation and a possible presidential flat.
		It was founded by Nikolai Vavilov, a distinguished botanist and geneticist, whose team made 110 expeditions around the world collecting samples of 330,000 plants.
		Yuri Vavilov, the son of Nikolai, the institute's founder, said: 'This is terrible news.
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/sciences/story/0,12243,887888,00.html (468 words)

	Nikolai Vavilov -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (Николай Иванович Вавилов, November 25/(November 13), 1887— January 26 1943) was a prominent Russian (A biologist specializing in the study of plants) botanist and (A biologist who specializes in genetics) geneticist.
		In 1940 he was repressed as a defender of " (Click link for more info and facts about bourgeois pseudoscience) bourgeois pseudoscience" genetics in struggle with (Click link for more info and facts about Lysenkoism) Lysenkoism and died in prison in 1943.
		The standard botanical author abbreviation Vavilov is applied to ((biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed) species he described.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ni/nikolai_vavilov.htm (423 words)

	Vavilov Sergei Ivanovich: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Sergei Muromtsev, Mairanovskys colleague...the famous geneticist Nikolai Vavilov, who was arrested by the NKVD...of his case, in 1942, when Vavilov was dying of dystrophy in prison...Sciences, Ordinary Academician Sergei Oldenburg.
		During the 1920s, Nikolai Vavilov and his coworkers embarked on numerous...
		VAVILOV, SERGEI IVANOVICH syirga eva n vich, 1891 1951, Russian physicist.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/vavilov-sergei-ivanovich.jsp?l=V&p=1 (524 words)

	Rethinking Thanksgiving
		Chile is the Vavilov Center for all the world’s strawberries, as is the Peruvian Andes for all tomatoes and potatoes.
		These Leftists, with their intolerance of freedom of thought and speech, are the new Lysenkos eager to stifle any new Vavilov who refuses to bend his knee to their dogmatic cult or cant.
		As Vavilov implicitly discovered, the long term health of living things requires individuality, entrepreneurial vitality, the freedom to be different — all of which can be viewed as a wee bit of wildness.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=4837 (1732 words)

	Rapid survey
		The greatest plant pioneer of the modern era was the Russian Academician Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (1887-1943).
		Vavilov fell foul of Stalin’s regime but his name has long been properly honoured in the N I Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry (VIR) in St Petersburg, which houses one of the world’s most important genebanks.
		Frankel truly bridged the generations; he knew Vavilov from the 1930s, and in the ‘70s was a key figure in the creation of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), today the world’s foremost international guardian of crop diversity collections.
	www.startwithaseed.org /pages/rapidsurvey.htm (610 words)

	HempCyberFarm Vavilov Institute
		Nikolai Ivanovich came up to me while I was sitting in the garden and greeted me. He was, as always, radiant and happy, only his appearance was unusual and strange.
		Vavilov arrived by steamer in French Somalia at Djibouti and by 27 December 1926 he was on the railroad headed for Addis-Ababa.
		Vavilov’s arrest on 6 August 1940 and his death in January 1943 were tragedies for world science made even darker by Lysenko’s ominous elevation to power by Stalin in August 1948.
	www.hempworld.com /Hemp-CyberFarm_com/htms/research_orgzs/Vavilov/Vavilovindex.html (4463 words)

	The Best Reviews: Elise Blackwell, Hunger Review
		In the 1930s and early 1940s biologist and geneticist Nikolai Vavilov traveled the world as a highly regarded scientist seeking rare plants.
		Nikolai nibbles at the specimens, which saves his life.
		Nikolai is an interesting character when he admits he failed his peers.
	thebestreviews.com /review11937 (197 words)

	Hort 306 - Lecture 4
		N.I. Nikolai I. Vavilov was born into the family of a merchant in Moscow on November 25, 1887.
		All around the world N.I. Vavilov has gained respect and renown; he was elected member of many academies of sciences and various foreign scientific societies.
		Vavilov emphasized that distribution of plant species was not uniform over the plant growing areas of the earth, e.g.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/history/lecture04/lec04.html (1435 words)

	Nikolai Tanayev - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Nikolai Tanayev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nikolai Tanayev - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Nikolai Tanayev.
		Nikolay Timofeyevich Tanayev (born November 5, 1945) was the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan from 2002 to 2005, serving under President Askar Akayev.
		He was Deputy Prime Minister under Kurmanbek Bakiyev and was made acting PM on May 22 2002 after Bakiyev was sacked.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Nikolai-Tanayev.html (253 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Test-Tubes and Tantrums
		In the end, the science of geology was helped by the fight — furious though it was - and De La Beche could be said to have pioneered the career of the professional geologist, transforming what had been a pastime for the priveleged few into a serious career option for many.
		As Vavilov continued his own research, support for Lysenko began to diminish as his claims began to sound increasingly far-fetched.
		Vavilov had lost his life for allegedly holding back the development of Soviet agriculture - Lysenko stayed in power even after Stalin’s death despite doing just that, and aroused more negative passions than few scientists have ever managed.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/science/testtubesandtantrums.shtml (1205 words)

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