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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.
Nikolai Vavilov. In full: Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov. Born: November 25 [November 13, old style], 1887, Moscow. Died: January 26, 1943, Saratov, Russian S.F.S.R. (aged 55) Notable Works: “The Origin, Variation, Immunity and Breeding of Cultivated Plants”.
Jun 20, 2023 · Mugshot of Nikolai Vavilov imprisoned. Wikimedia Commons. Print Google Classroom. During WWII, nine Soviet scientists starved to death surrounded by millions of delicious fruits, seeds, and nuts. Were they mad? No. They wanted to save humankind from doomsday. About The Disappearing Spoon.
Dec 13, 2014 · The tragic end for the humanitarian scientist. However, sadly Nikolai Vavilov’s story is one shrouded by tragedy. After plant genetics came into ill favour during the 1930s, Vavilov, his team and institution, were bitterly denounced by Stalin.
Apr 15, 2014 · In 1920, Vavilov's former mentor Regel died, and Vavilov replaced him as director of the Bureau of Applied Botany in Petrograd, and he began his work there in 1921.
Feb 8, 2017 · How did this visionary geneticist, who aimed to find the means for food security, end up starving to death in a Soviet gulag in 1943? Heroic science? Enter the villain, Trofim Lysenko, ironically...
Jun 1, 2015 · Vavilov died of starvation in prison in 1943, thus entering the select group of martyrs of science along with Gordiano Bruno, Galileo Galilei, Antoine Lavoisier, and Georgii Karpechenko. Keywords: centers of origin; centers of diversity; germplasm; plant breeding.
On June 23, 1942, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet—in reality, Stalin's Politburo—commuted Vavilov's death sentence to 20 years of imprisonment in labor camps.
Dec 9, 2021 · Soviet plant geneticist Nikolai Vavilov gathered thousands of specimens from around the globe with hopes of cultivating crops to eradicate hunger – and yet he starved to death in a prison cell.
Jun 11, 2018 · He died on Jan. 26, 1943, a broken man, a victim of quackery and Stalinist tyranny. In 1956 the Soviet Academy of Sciences ordered the republication of Vavilov's works, apparently in an effort to rehabilitate him. Further Reading. Only scattered and brief biographical articles on Vavilov have appeared in Russian and English newspapers and journals.
