Background
Timofeev-Resovskii, Nikolai was born on September 20, 1900.
Timofeev-Resovskii, Nikolai was born on September 20, 1900.
Graduated from Moscow University, 1925, and sent by the Institute of Experimental Biology to Germany.
Involved in experimental research with German scientists. Ignored the order of the Soviet Embassy in Berlin to return to Moscow, 1937, and thus became a defector in Soviet law, a crime aggravated by his staying in Nazi Germany. At the end of World War II, abducted by SMERSH in Berlin.
Brought to Lubianka prison in Moscow. Tried in secret, and sent to the Gulag. When the authorities realized his scientific value, they transferred him, in a state of almost total exhaustion, to a Moscow prison hospital.
After his recovery, sent to the Urals to a sharashka (a special research institute for imprisoned scientists). Carried out research into the influence of radiation on human genes. Released after Stalin’s death.
Appointed head of Obninsk Laboratory of Medical Radiology, 1964-1969. Constantly supervised by the Committee for State Security, refused permission to go abroad to attend international conferences. Mentioned by Solzhenitsyn in Gulag Archipelago, D. Granin in ‘Zubr’, Novyi Mir, 1-2, 1987, Zhores Medvedev in The Medvedev Papers, Macmillan, 1971, Raisa Berg in Sukhovei, Chalidse Publ., 1983.
Religion is bad because it stops people thinking in a rational and objective way.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.