BIOLOGIST

Nikolai Vavilov

1887 - 1943

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Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Вави́лов, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ vɐˈvʲiləf] ; 25 November [O.S. 13 November] 1887 – 26 January 1943) was a Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist who identified the centers of origin of cultivated plants. His research focused on improvement of wheat, maize and other cereal crops. Vavilov became the youngest member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. He was a member of the USSR Central Executive Committee, a recipient of the Lenin Prize, and president of All-Union Geographical Society. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Vavilov is the 98th most popular biologist (down from 60th in 2019), the 215th most popular biography from Russia (down from 205th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Biologist.

Nikolai Vavilov is most famous for his theory of the centers of origin of cultivated plants.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nikolai Vavilov ranks 98 out of 1,097. Before him are Ernst Mayr, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Philip Sclater, Aaron Ciechanover, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, and Pierre André Latreille. After him are Erwin Neher, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Janaki Ammal, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, and Georges J. F. Köhler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Nikolai Vavilov ranks 35. Before him are Georgia O'Keeffe, Felix Yusupov, Ruth Benedict, Jack Phillips, August Macke, and Wolfgang Köhler. After him are Lothar Rendulic, Alvin York, Alexander Archipenko, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Erich Mendelsohn, and Kurt Schwitters. Among people deceased in 1943, Nikolai Vavilov ranks 21. Before him are Sophie Scholl, Yakov Dzhugashvili, Chaim Soutine, Alexandre Millerand, Beatrix Potter, and Władysław Sikorski. After him are Alexandre Yersin, Maurice Denis, Max Wertheimer, Max Reinhardt, Julius Fučík, and Beatrice Webb.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Vavilov ranks 215 out of 3,761. Before him are Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Aleksandr Ulyanov (1866), Alexander Friedmann (1888), Sabina Spielrein (1885), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853). After him are Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863), Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839), Vasily Blokhin (1895), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Johannes Blaskowitz (1883), and Vasily I of Moscow (1371).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Nikolai Vavilov ranks 3. Before him are Ivan Pavlov (1849), and Alexander Oparin (1894). After him are Vladimir Vernadsky (1863), Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), Edwin Klebs (1834), and Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799).

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