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BIOLOGIST

Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky

1900 - 1981

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Nikolaj Vladimirovich Timofeev-Resovskij, also Timofeyeff-Ressovsky (Russian: Николай Владимирович Тимофеев-Ресовский; 20 September [O.S. 7 September] 1900 – 28 March 1981) was a Soviet biologist. 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 46,743 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky is the 786th most popular biologist, the 1,856th most popular biography from Russia and the 21st most popular Russian Biologist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky ranks 786 out of 841. Before him are Richard Spruce, Yang Zhongjian, Sereno Watson, Félix de Avelar Brotero, Charles Conrad Abbott, and Judah Folkman. After him are Herbert Giles, Alexander Wilson, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet, and André Marie Constant Duméril.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky ranks 245. Before him are Panagiotis Pavlidis, Zenón Noriega Agüero, Henry Petersen, Hélène Prévost, Lőrinc Szabó, and Carlos Raúl Villanueva. After him are Alice Calhoun, Pedro Ochoa, Nikolaos Morakis, René Lorain, Eino Purje, and Nikolai Vladimirovich Nekrasov. Among people deceased in 1981, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky ranks 195. Before him are Antonio Suárez, Paul Bontemps, Richard Boone, Ariel Durant, Antero Kivi, and Francesca Woodman. After him are David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, Karl Struss, Roy Cochran, Guy Butler, Carleton S. Coon, and Wilfried Puis.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky ranks 1,856 out of 3,262. Before him are Lev Shcherba (1880), Irina Alfyorova (1951), Alexander Nevzorov (1958), Valeri Brainin (1948), Yelizaveta Chaikina (1918), and Dmitry Glukhovsky (1979). After him are Ekaterina Gordeeva (1971), Sergey Nikolsky (1905), Lyudmila Pinayeva (1936), Viktor Zhdanovich (1938), Olga Morozova (1949), and Avdotia Istomina (1799).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky ranks 21. Before him are Fritz Schaudinn (1871), Nikolay Drozdov (1937), Edwin Klebs (1834), Johann Friedrich Adam (1780), Alexei Fedchenko (1844), and David Keilin (1887). After him are Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (1869) and Ivan Lepyokhin (1740).

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