Background
FILIPCHENKO, Yuriy was born in 1882.
FILIPCHENKO, Yuriy was born in 1882.
1906 graduate Saint St. Petersburg University.
After graduate assistant to Professor Shevyakov, Chair of Invertebrate Zoology', Saint St. Petersburg University. 1916-1917 wrote doctor’s thesis on "The Variability and Hereditary Characteristics of the Cranium in Mammals", which served as a basis for his further research in this field 1919 founded first Soviet chair of genetics at Leningrad University.
1920 founded Laboratory of Genetics and Experimental Zoology, Peterhof Natural Sciences (now Biological) Institute. 1924 gave up research on variablity to study quantitative genetic features. 1921 founded Eugenics Bureau (later renamed Laboratory of Genetics and now Institute of Genetics), Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences, where he evaluated questionnaires on heredity filled out by scientists, artists, et cetera
Toward end of life study the genetics of wheat. Also acquired fame as a teacher and popularizer. After death his views were criticized as "errors typical of bourgeois genetics”.
Condemned for his defense of the theory of autogenesis and the dualist theory of heredity according to which the chromosomes determine only intraspccific racial characteristics while the basic organisatory features are determined by extranuclear elements. Many of his works on eugenics contain ideas to be found in Western genetics. Wrote over 100 works.