BIOLOGIST

Zhores Medvedev

1925 - 2018

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Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev (Russian: Жоре́с Алекса́ндрович Медве́дев; 14 November 1925 – 15 November 2018) was a Russian agronomist, biologist, historian and dissident. His twin brother is the historian Roy Medvedev. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Zhores Medvedev is the 490th most popular biologist (down from 444th in 2019), the 111th most popular biography from Georgia (up from 125th in 2019) and the most popular Georgian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Zhores Medvedev ranks 490 out of 1,097. Before him are Benedykt Dybowski, Lorenz Heister, Carl Chun, Johannes Thiele, Wilder Penfield, and Jan Svatopluk Presl. After him are David Starr Jordan, Vladimir Demikhov, Giuseppe Acerbi, Gabriel Bibron, Emil Christian Hansen, and Martin Rathke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Zhores Medvedev ranks 204. Before him are Solomon Perel, Peter Hirsch, Alexei Tupolev, Maureen Stapleton, Nina Lobkovskaya, and Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo. After him are Sergei Salnikov, David Warren, Arlene Dahl, Nonna Mordyukova, Justo Gallego Martínez, and Robert Mulligan. Among people deceased in 2018, Zhores Medvedev ranks 173. Before him are Morgan Tsvangirai, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Ahron Daum, Luigi Taveri, Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, and Robert Indiana. After him are Moshé Mizrahi, Károly Palotai, Choi Eun-hee, Tessa Jowell, Walter Mischel, and Henri Namphy.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Zhores Medvedev ranks 111 out of 406. Before him are Nana Alexandria (1949), Lusine Zakaryan (1937), Roy Medvedev (1925), Vakhtang VI of Kartli (1675), Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia (1875), and Grigory Neujmin (1886). After him are Alex Metreveli (1944), Grigol Abashidze (1914), Konstantine Gamsakhurdia (1893), Zurab Zhvania (1963), Maia Chiburdanidze (1961), and Pharasmanes I of Iberia (-50).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Georgia

Among biologists born in Georgia, Zhores Medvedev ranks 1. 

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