Yuri Filipchenko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yuri Filipchenko

Russian entomologist

Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1882

Place of Birth: Bolkhovsky District, Oryol Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 19-May-1930

Profession: botanist, entomologist, geneticist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Yuri Filipchenko (Russian: ???? ??????????; sometimes spelled Philipchenko) (1882 — 1930) was a Russian entomologist who coined the terms microevolution and macroevolution, as well as the mentor of geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky.
Though he himself was an orthogenetic, he was one of the first scientists to incorporate the laws of Mendel into evolutionary theory and thus had a great influence on The Modern Synthesis.
He established a genetics laboratory in Leningrad undertaking experimental work with Drosophila melanogaster.
Theodosius Dobzhansky worked with him from 1924.
Filipchenko is also known for his work in Soviet eugenics, though his work in the subject would later result in his public denunciation due to the rise of Stalinism and increased criticisms that eugenics represented bourgeois science.