1887 - 1943
Nikolai Vavilov Russian Scientist
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| First Name |
Nikolai
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| Last Name |
Vavilov
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1886
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| Birthplace |
Moscow
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| Died |
26th January, 1943
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| Place of Death |
Saratov, RSFSR, Soviet Union
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| Nationality |
Russian
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| Occupation |
Scientist
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Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov ForMemRS, HFRSE (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Вави́лов, 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 in prison in 1943. In 1955 his death sentence was retroactively pardoned under Nikita Khrushchev. By the 1960s his reputation was publicly rehabilitated and he began to be hailed as a hero of Soviet science.
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