Nikolai Vavilov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Nikolai Vavilov

Russian botanist and geneticist

Date of Birth: 13-Nov-1887

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 26-Jan-1943

Profession: teacher, biologist, geographer, botanist, geneticist, academic, explorer

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Nikolai Vavilov

  • Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov HFRSE (Russian: ??????? ???????? ???????, IPA: [n??k?'laj ?'van?v??t? v?'v?il?f] (listen)) (25 November [O.S.
  • 13 November] 1887 – 26 January 1943) was a prominent Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist best known for having identified the centers of origin of cultivated plants.
  • He devoted his life to the study and improvement of wheat, corn, and other cereal crops that sustain the global population.
  • Vavilov's work was criticized by Trofim Lysenko, whose anti-Mendelian concepts of plant biology had won favor with Joseph Stalin.
  • As a result, Vavilov was arrested and subsequently sentenced to death in July 1941.
  • Although his sentence was commuted to twenty years' imprisonment, he died of starvation in prison in 1943.

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