Nikolai Vavilov

Николай Иванович
Вавилов

Major: scientist-genetist, hybridist
Birth: November 25 1887, Moscow
Death: January 26 1943, Saratov
Sex: male
Nationality: Russian
Achievements:
60 expeditions.
Principles of artificial selection of plants.
Doctrine about plants immunity.
Defense of genetics from Lysenkoism.

He was born to a family of a commersant.

Timeline

• 1911 - graduated from the Moscow Agricultural Institute
• 1917-1921 - professor of agronomy departmen of the Saratov University
• 1919 - theory of the immunity for plants.
• 1920 - formulation of the law of homology series in genetical mutability
• 1921(-1940) - chairman of the applied botanics and selection section in Petrograd, which in 1924 was reorganized into the All-Union Institute of Applied Botanics and New Crops and in 1930, into the All-Union Institute of Plant Cultivation, with Vavilov being direcor until August, 1940.
• 1926 - Lenin Award
• 1930—1940 - head of the genetics laboratory in Moscow, later reorganized into the Institute of Genetics of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
• 1931—1940 - President of the All-Union Geographical Society.
• 1940 - repressed.
• 1943 - died imprisoned, in Saratov.

Works

• Земледельческий Афганистан. (1929) (''Agricultural Afghanistan)
• Селекция как наука. (1934) (Selection as science)
• Закон гомологических рядов в наследственной изменчивости. (1935) (The law of homology series in genetical mutability)
• Учение о происхождении культурных растений после Дарвина. (1940)(The theory of origins of cultivated plants after Darwin)