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. He devoted his life to the study and improvement of wheat, maize and other cereal crops that sustain the global population.Vavilov's work was criticized by Trofim Lysenko, whose anti-Mendelian concepts of plant biology had won favor with Joseph Stalin. As a result, Vavilov was arrested and subsequently sentenced to death in July 1941. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Vavilov has received more than 804,976 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Nikolai Vavilov is the 60th most popular biologist (down from 51st in 2019), the 205th most popular biography from Russia (down from 194th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 800k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Nikolai Vavilov has had the most page views in the with 210,366 views, followed by English (72,066), and Spanish (16,513). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Tamil (91.17%), Chuvash (89.70%), and German (63.06%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nikolai Vavilov ranks 60 out of 1,097. Before him are François Jacob, Sylvia Earle, Hugo de Vries, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Daniel Bovet, and John Edward Gray. After him are George Beadle, Adelbert von Chamisso, Trofim Lysenko, Irwin Rose, Linda B. Buck, and André Michel Lwoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Nikolai Vavilov ranks 31. Before him are Henry Moseley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ruth Benedict, Leopold Ružička, Nadia Boulanger, and Wolfgang Köhler. After him are Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Lothar Rendulic, August Macke, Erich Mendelsohn, Kurt Schwitters, and John Reed. Among people deceased in 1943, Nikolai Vavilov ranks 18. Before him are Sophie Scholl, Henri La Fontaine, Yakov Dzhugashvili, Chaim Soutine, Władysław Sikorski, and Alexandre Millerand. After him are Max Wertheimer, Alexandre Yersin, Maurice Denis, Julius Fučík, Beatrix Potter, and Gustav Vigeland.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Vavilov ranks 205 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (1690), Christian Goldbach (1690), Anna Netrebko (1971), Vasily II of Moscow (1415), Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), and Vasily Stalin (1921). After him are Mikhail Suslov (1902), Olga Constantinovna of Russia (1851), Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Gherman Titov (1935), and Igor Tamm (1895).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Nikolai Vavilov ranks 3. Before him are Ivan Pavlov (1849), and Vladimir Vernadsky (1863). After him are Alexander Oparin (1894), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Vladimir Demikhov (1916), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), and Kliment Timiryazev (1843).

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