Background
Boris Petrovitch Uvarov was born in Ural"sk, in the Russian Empire (now Oral, Kazakhstan), the son of Pyotr P. Uvarov, a state bank employee, and his wife, Aleksandra.
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Transactions of the Entomological Society of London - Volume 79: Insects and Climate
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Boris Uvarov
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He studied biology in the Saint St. Petersburg State University, graduating in 1910.
Career
He worked as entomologist in Stavropol and put locust control on a sound scientific basis. From 1915 he worked in Tiflis, which after the Russian revolution of 1917 had become the capital of the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia. Starting in 1945, Doctor Uvarov and his small team received official designation as the Anti-Locust Research Centre.
During the next fourteen years, the Centre developed into the foremost laboratory in the world for research on locusts.
He made important contributions in the areas of taxonomy, population biology and locust control.
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Commander of the Order of Street Michael and Street George (1943) Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Street Michael and Street George (10 June 1961) for contributions to science, particularly as Director of the Anti-Locust Research Centre Fellow of the Royal Society (1950) Commander of the Royal Order of the Lion (Belgium, 1948) Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Madrid (1935) President of the Royal Entomological Society of London (1959-1961) Uvarov was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1950, his nomination readsreads:.
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Royal Society.
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Fellow of the Royal Society; Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Commander of the Royal Order of the Lion; Order of St Michael and St George
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, King George III.The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, King George III.
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Fellow of the Royal Society; Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Commander of the Royal Order of the Lion; Order of St Michael and St George
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, King George III.The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, King George III.