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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Vavilov has received more than 810,661 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Vavilov is the 51st most popular biologist (down from 23rd in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from Russia (down from 110th in 2019) and the 2nd 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 51 out of 841. Before him are August Weismann, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Karl Ernst von Baer, Robert Edwards, Hans Spemann, and Peter Simon Pallas. After him are Hugo de Vries, Vladimir Vernadsky, Adelbert von Chamisso, Jean-Henri Fabre, François Jacob, and Erasmus Darwin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Nikolai Vavilov ranks 28. Before him are Chūichi Nagumo, Henry Moseley, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ruth Benedict, and Georg Trakl. After him are Nadia Boulanger, Lothar Rendulic, Wolfgang Köhler, James B. Sumner, Kurt Schwitters, and August Macke. Among people deceased in 1943, Nikolai Vavilov ranks 16. Before him are Henrik Pontoppidan, Theodor Eicke, Yakov Dzhugashvili, Sophie Scholl, Henri La Fontaine, and Beatrix Potter. After him are Alexandre Millerand, Max Wertheimer, Władysław Sikorski, Chaim Soutine, Alexandre Yersin, and Jean Moulin.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Vavilov ranks 194 out of 3,262. Before him are Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), Ivan Shishkin (1832), Christian Goldbach (1690), Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia (1891), and Vasily Stalin (1921). After him are Natalia Goncharova (1881), Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853), Yakov Sverdlov (1885), Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia (1876), Gennady Yanayev (1937), and Gennady Zyuganov (1944).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Nikolai Vavilov ranks 2. Before him are Ivan Pavlov (1849). After him are Vladimir Vernadsky (1863), Alexander Oparin (1894), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Vladimir Demikhov (1916), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), and Kliment Timiryazev (1843).

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