Nikolai Vavilov devoted his life to the study and improvement of wheat, maize and other cereal crops that sustain the global population.
17 Facts About Nikolai Vavilov
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Nikolai Vavilov was born into a merchant family in Moscow, the older brother of physicist Sergey Ivanovich Nikolai Vavilov.
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Nikolai Vavilov's father had grown up in poverty due to recurring crop failures and food rationing, and Vavilov became obsessed from an early age with ending famine.
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Nikolai Vavilov entered the Petrovskaya Agricultural Academy in 1906.
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Nikolai Vavilov graduated from the Petrovka in 1910 with a dissertation on snails as pests.
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Nikolai Vavilov declined, but visited the institute in 1933 for three months to train 50 students in her research.
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Nikolai Vavilov was a member of the USSR Central Executive Committee, President of All-Union Geographical Society, and a recipient of the Lenin Prize.
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In 1932, during the sixth congress, Nikolai Vavilov proposed holding the seventh International Congress of Genetics in the USSR.
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Nikolai Vavilov was elected chairman of the International Congress of Genetics.
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The Politburo prohibited Nikolai Vavilov from travelling abroad; during the Congress's opening ceremony an empty chair was placed on the stage as a symbolic reminder of Nikolai Vavilov's involuntary absence.
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Nikolai Vavilov encountered the young Trofim Lysenko and at first encouraged Lysenko's work.
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However, Nikolai Vavilov changed his mind and became an outspoken critic of Lysenko, because Lysenko did not believe in genetics and Nikolai Vavilov feared that Lysenko's ideas could be disastrous for Soviet agriculture.
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Nikolai Vavilov publicly criticized Lysenko both at home and while on foreign trips.
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The warrant for Nikolai Vavilov's arrest was issued by 1st Lt.
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Nikolai Vavilov's son Oleg with his first wife Yekaterina Sakharova was born in 1918.
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Nikolai Vavilov was the head of the institute from 1921 to 1940.
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In 1990, a six part documentary entitled Nikolai Vavilov was created as a joint production of the USSR and East Germany.