Background
VAVILOV, Nikolay was born on November 13, 1887 in Moscow.
VAVILOV, Nikolay was born on November 13, 1887 in Moscow.
19 11 graduate Moscow Agric Institute.
Stayed on at Moscow Agric Institute to train for professorship. 1917-1921 professor, Saratov University. 1923-1929 director, State Institute of Experimental Agronomy, Leningrad.
1929-1935 president, 1935-1937 vice-president, All-Union Lenin Academy of Agric Sciences. 1924-1940 director, All-Union Institute of Applied Botany and New Crops. 1930-1940 director, Institute of Genetics, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
1931-1940 president, All-Union Geographical Social. Organized and took part in expeditions to Mediterranean, Ethiopia, Japan, of Korea and Northern, Centr and South America, accumulating a worldwide collection of cultivated plants. Established the main for ci of the origin of cultivated plants.
Devised original classification of plant immunity phenomena. Member, Royal Social, London and many other for sci and learned society Adopted independent stand on genetic theory and research, diametrically opposed to that officially endorsed by the Communist Party and practised by Lysenko, at that time president of All-Union Lenin Academy of Agric Sciences.
1940 arrested and expelled from Academy.
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Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and Ukraine Academy of Sciences. Member, All-Union Lenin Academy of Agric Sciences from 1929.