BIOLOGIST

Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky

1900 - 1981

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Nikolay Vladimirovich Timofeev-Ressovsky (Russian: Николай Владимирович Тимофеев-Ресовский, romanized: Nikolay Vladimirovich Timofeyev-Resovskiy; 20 September [O.S. 7 September] 1900 – 28 March 1981) was a Soviet biologist who, in principle, was a senior scientist in Soviet programs of nuclear and, later in biological weapons. He conducted research in radiation genetics, experimental population genetics, and microevolution. His life was highlighted by scientific achievements in the face of severe personal hardship, including his imprisonment and working in secret scientific facilities of Soviet Gulag. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky has received more than 50,666 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky is the 892nd most popular biologist (down from 785th in 2019), the 2,137th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,852nd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Russian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky ranks 892 out of 1,097. Before him are Theobald Smith, Robert Weinberg, Dukinfield Henry Scott, Richard Evans Schultes, David Goodall, and Charles Frédéric Girard. After him are Carl Fredrik Fallén, Peter Ascanius, Clinton Hart Merriam, Yasutomi Nishizuka, Otto Bütschli, and Wilhem de Haan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky ranks 263. Before him are Fernando Quiroga Palacios, Carlos Hevia, Franz Dienert, Gaetano Martino, Stefanie Clausen, and Spyridon Athanasopoulos. After him are André Dhôtel, Alice Calhoun, Nikolaos Morakis, Nikolai Tomsky, Lőrinc Szabó, and Rudolf Lippert. Among people deceased in 1981, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky ranks 221. Before him are Carleton S. Coon, Jakob Bender, Hermann Pilnik, Antero Kivi, Antonio Suárez, and Stefanie Clausen. After him are Harvey Fletcher, Geirr Tveitt, Ann Harding, Dan Coe, Bronisław Malinowski, and Oumarou Ganda.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky ranks 2,137 out of 3,761. Before him are Klara Guseva (1937), Matvey Gusev (1826), Manfred Schaefer (1943), Yevgeny Vesnik (1923), German Sveshnikov (1937), and Maxim Galkin (1976). After him are Igor Dmitriev (1927), Jorma Valkama (1928), Vladimir Kara-Murza (1981), Alexei Kasatonov (1959), Igor Starygin (1946), and Olavi Paavolainen (1903).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky ranks 23. Before him are Fritz Schaudinn (1871), Nikolay Drozdov (1937), Alexei Fedchenko (1844), David Keilin (1887), Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (1869), and Zinaida Yermolyeva (1898). After him are Victor Motschulsky (1810), Johann Friedrich Adam (1780), and Ivan Lepyokhin (1740).

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