Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson was one of the most prominent Soviet geneticists, a former student of Nikolai Koltsov, who was among the scientists who had to struggle against the persecution of geneticists in the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union.
11 Facts About Vladimir Efroimson
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Vladimir Efroimson studied in an elite bilingual German school and entered the Biology division of Math and Physics Faculty of Moscow State University in 1925, where he studied under Nikolai Koltsov.
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Vladimir Efroimson started to work for the Central Asian Institute for Silk Worm Growing.
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Vladimir Efroimson wrote a report On the Criminal Activities by Trofim Lysenko.
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In 1949 Vladimir Efroimson was sentenced for his Libel against the Red Army to seven years in Gulag.
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In 1968 Vladimir Efroimson became the head of the genetics department of Moscow Institute for Psychiatry.
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The main works of Vladimir Efroimson were devoted to the broader area of genetics including: the effects of ionizing radiation, mechanism of carcinogenesis and radiation sickness, mechanism of immunity, neuropsychiatric genetics, genetics of human pathologies, etc.
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Vladimir Efroimson was the author of three monographs and over 100 scientific papers and the editor of many books on different issues of genetics.
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Vladimir Efroimson is the author of many philosophical works including his Origin of Altruism.
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Vladimir Efroimson entered the annals of Russian science as an outstanding researcher, but as an unblinking fighter for the truth, an uncompromising opponent of anti-scientific directions in biology, an ardent advocate of genetics and the moral standard of a true scientist.
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Vladimir Efroimson is a prototype of Ilya Goldberg, one of the protagonists in the Lyudmila Ulitskaya's novel Kukotsky's Case.