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23 hours ago · 1938 NKVD arrest photo of the poet Osip Mandelstam, who died in a labor camp The NKVD photo of writer Isaac Babel made after his arrest Theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold at the time of his arrest Botanist Nikolai Vavilov's photo, taken at the time of his arrest Aino Forsten; (1885–1937) Finnish educator and Social Democratic politician ...
May 20, 2024 · In 1941, Nikolai Vavilov was imprisoned just after his election as President of Q1 the International Congress on Genetics. How could a prominent Russian geneticist and plant explorer simultaneously earn distinction and animosity?
1 day ago · Nikolai Vavilov (1887-1943, USSR) – A geneticist-scientist who was arrested and died in detention due to accusations of anti-Soviet activity. His work on plant breeding did not align with the pseudoscientific theories supported by the Soviet leadership.
3 days ago · Sentenced to death, Vavilov later witnessed ‘mercy’: in 1942, USSR’s Presidium of the Supreme Soviet replaced the death penalty with 20 years in work camps.
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov was a Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist who was familiarly known for his book, Five Continents.
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May 12, 2024 · Aimé Bonpland, a French botanist and explorer, is best known for his collaboration with Alexander von Humboldt on a groundbreaking expedition to Latin America (1799-1804). During this journey, Bonpland collected and described thousands of plant specimens, many of which were new to science.
May 15, 2024 · We’re two of thousands of people involved,” Hawtin says, adding that they were “standing on the shoulders of giants” such as Nikolai Vavilov, a Russian scientist known as the father of...
