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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 USSR Academy of Sciences established the Vavilov Award (1965) and the Vavilov Medal (1968). The standard botanical author abbreviation Vavilov is applied to species he described. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nikolai_Vavilov   (374 words)

The Voice of Russia (People and events: Russia in Personalities) Vavilov�s biggest enemy was Trofim Lysenko, a man whom Encyclopaedia Britannica later described as the 20th century�s best-known pseudo-scientist. Vavilov was accused of undermining the socialist reforms an agriculture and, before long, was arrested. 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. www.vor.ru /Events/program3.html   (374 words)

CERN Courier - Sergei Vavilov: luminary of - IOP Publishing - article 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). 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. www.cerncourier.com /main/article/44/9/25   (3218 words)

Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry 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. Vavilov, the symbol of glory of the national science, is at the same time the symbol of its tragedy. www.ecobooks.com /authors/vavilov.htm   (1148 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)

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)

SeedQuest - Central information website for the global seed industry Vavilov became a victim of the purges, and died in prison in 1943. 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. 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. www.seedquest.com /News/releases/2004/october/10191.htm   (951 words)

The Voice of Russia (People and events: Russia in Personalities) 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. 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 born on November 25, 1887 into the family of a reasonably wealthy businessman. www.vor.ru /Events/program3.html   (690 words)

Untitled Document 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. 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. www.smcm.edu /aldiv/Drama/season/vavilovbio.htm   (1110 words)

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. Nikolai Tanayev - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Nikolai Tanayev. www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Nikolai-Tanayev.html   (253 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. At least Nikolai Vavilov's name was cleared, and his works began to be published again in the country in the 1960s. At the same time a campaign was launched in the Soviet Union against genetics, which was branded the "handmaiden of the bourgeoisie." It became clear that Vavilov, who was one of the world leaders in genetics, was at risk. english.mn.ru /english/issue.php?2002-46-10   (1188 words)

Vegetable Seeds UK - Heirloom Vegetable Seeds In August of 1940, Nikolai Vavilov was imprisoned and sentenced to death due to the accusations of Lysenko. 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. 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)

Travel Stories - Shackleton Odyssey[A] We were delighted to see the Vavilov again - this was the ship that took us on our first voyage to Antarctica in 1993. When we left Buenos Aires the temperature had been in the mid-20's (Celcuis), but we quickly reached for the polar-fleeces as we left the plane in Ushuaia where the temperature was a very nippy 5 deg C. We waited eagerly till 4pm when we could finally board the ship. We went ashore in the zodiacs (four tied up on the beach) and climbed the loose black soil to the rim of the volcanic crater. www.adelie.com.au /maggie/travso.html   (547 words)

The Crater Company - Moon Crater Catalog - Index Of Named Lunar Craters The Crater Company logo and the phrase Nothing Could Be Greater Than To Own Your Own Crater! Yrj� ~ (1891-1971), Finnish astronomer, geodecist and meteorologist; inventor of the aplanatic telescope, which provides correction for spherical aberration and coma. The Crater Company - Moon Crater Catalog - Index Of Named Lunar Craters www.cratercompany.com /catalog/crater_v.shtml   (547 words)

lunar_surface Impact 1967-08A 1967 Oct 11 Lunar Orbiter 2 4S 98E Hirayama Crater Pasteur A2? Impact 1967-41A 1967 Oct 9 Lunar Orbiter 3 91.7W 14.6N Einstein Crater Nobel B1? www.planet4589.org /space/logs/deep/lunar_surface   (547 words)

Encyclopedia: List of Russians Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff, also Sergey Rachmaninov or Serge Rakhmaninov (Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов), (April 1, 1873 – March 28, 1943) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Серге́й Серге́евич Проко́фьев) (April 271, 1891 – March 5, 1953) was one of the Soviet Unions greatest composers. Sergey Dovlatov (1941-1990) was a Russian short-story writer and novelist. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-Russians   (547 words)

GRDC - Research Summaries - International research review: Russia 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. 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. Russian scientist Sergey Shuvalov is just that, and during two decades with the Foreign Relations Department of the Vavilov Institute, he has participated in numerous missions to search for unique plant germplasm - potentially crucial to the future robustness of Australian crops. www.grdc.com.au /growers/res_summ/russia.htm   (547 words)

GRDC - Ground Cover Issue 48 - Scouting for crop ancestors in volatile outposts Sergey Shuvalov is just that, and during two decades with the Foreign Relations Department of the Vavilov Institute, St Petersburg in Russia, he has participated in numerous missions to search for unique plant germplasm – potentially crucial to the future robustness of Australian crops. Vavilov, after whom the famous Vavilov Institute in St Petersburg was named, pioneered the science of germplasm collection in the early to mid 1900s. “Vavilov went to Tajikistan in 1916, although it was before he had developed his centre of origins theory and there was little known about that mission,” Mr Shuvalov says. www.grdc.com.au /growers/gc/gc48/plantgenetics1.htm   (547 words)

kazakhstan.htm Also, the N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry (VIR) is currently preparing to send us 58 accessions of forage kochia collected after our departure during the third leg of the expedition to the area northwest of Chelkar towards Aktyubinsk, Kazakhstan. According to scientists from the N. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry these areas have the highest concentration of forage kochia in the former Soviet Union. To continue to develop contacts and to expand upon interactions for germplasm exchange and related agricultural research with scientists and administrators associated with the N. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry at St Petersburg, Russia and the Aral Sea Experiment Station for Plant Genetic Resources at Chelkar, Kazakhstan. www.usu.edu /forage/kazakhstan.htm   (547 words)

Sergey Vavilov - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov ( 1891 - January 25, 1951) was a Russian scientist. encyclopedia.learnthis.info /s/se/sergey_vavilov.html   (547 words)

Search Encyclopedia.com Vavilov, Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov, Sergei IvanovichsyĬrgā´ ēvä´nevĬch vevē´lef, 1891-1951, Russian physicist. Vavilov, Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, Nikolai IvanovichnyĬkelī´ ēvä´nevĬch vevē´lef, 1887-1943?, Russian botanist and geneticist. In 1935 the city was renamed Kirovakan, after Sergey Kirov. www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Sergey+Vavilov   (547 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. Yuri Vavilov, the son of Nikolai, the institute's founder, said: 'This is terrible news. 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. education.guardian.co.uk /higher/sciences/story/0,12243,887888,00.html   (468 words)

Chrono-Biographical Sketch: Nikolai Vavilov Vavilov's is one the saddest stories of twentieth century science. 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. 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. www.wku.edu /~smithch/chronob/VAVI1887.htm   (376 words)

Rethinking Thanksgiving Chile is the Vavilov Center for all the world’s strawberries, as is the Peruvian Andes for all tomatoes and potatoes. 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. 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. www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=4837   (1732 words)

Rapid survey 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. The greatest plant pioneer of the modern era was the Russian Academician Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (1887-1943). www.startwithaseed.org /pages/rapidsurvey.htm   (610 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. VAVILOV, SERGEI IVANOVICH syirga eva n vich, 1891 1951, Russian physicist. During the 1920s, Nikolai Vavilov and his coworkers embarked on numerous... www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/vavilov-sergei-ivanovich.jsp?l=V&p=1   (524 words)

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

Vavilov's Ghost Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov was Russian geneticist pioneered what now seems like a very obvious theory: in order to breed better crops we need to study and use the total genetic diversity of the crops themselves. "Vavilov's Ghost" is the story of a genius who used to tell his staff "Life is short, one must hurry." Join producer Neenah Ellis as she travels to St. Petersburg, and explores the world's oldest seed bank, its intellectual legacy, and the roots of what we now call biodiversity. He collected seeds from all over the world to use in breeding programs: seeds which are stored and maintained to this day. soundprint.org /radio/display_show/ID/509/name/Vavilov's+Ghost   (224 words)

Vavilov 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. 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. At this Institute Vavilov studied in diverse disciplines, and published on the molluscan predators (snails, slugs) of plants in the Moscow province. www.tagari.com /PermInst/BillsArticles_IndividualPages/PreCursPerm_2_Vavilov.htm   (1271 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 is an interesting character when he admits he failed his peers. Nikolai nibbles at the specimens, which saves his life. thebestreviews.com /review11937   (197 words)

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