Nikolai Vavilov: The scientist who wanted to feed the whole world and died of hunger
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The most complete life story and scientific work of the great breeder, biologist, genetics, organizer of science Nikolai Vavilov.
Author, based on recently open archival documents, personal and official correspondence, bright reports on expeditions, previously not published family letters and diaries, as well as memoirs of eyewitnesses, most fully and cinematographically recreates the course of events and portraits of heroes.
The book contains rare archival photos.
One of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, Nikolai Vavilov dreamed of ending the hunger in the world, but in 1943 he himself died of hunger in a Saratov prison. The pioneer of domestic genetics, the indefatigable and cheerful hunter for plants was the victim of the ideologization of Stalinist science. Nicholas Vavilov could not contrast the pressure of the cynical demagogue-conjunker Trofim Lysenko to the pressure of the pressure of Trofim Lysenko. Cleaning of geneticists threw domestic science to the whole generation back and caused great harm to the country.
Recreating the story of how the greatest humanitarian mission led Nikolai Vavilov to starvation, Peter Prunge relied on recent archival documents, personal and official correspondence, vivid expeditions, previously not published family letters and diaries, as well as the memoirs of eyewitnesses . A deeply human and bright story draws a very lively image of a brilliant scientist, a life -loving and ascetic, who, until the very last days, has not parted with his great dream.
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Oh, how many plots! Oh, where is Shakespeare? - wrote about the events of the first half of the 20th century Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The book of Peter Princess in detail, fully, logically tells about the brilliant life of the path and the terrible death of Nikolai Vavilov, a scientist, about whom we have heard, perhaps, everyone who is interested in biology and its history. For such people, this book is required to read.
Sergey Yastrebov, scientific journalist, biologist, laureate of the Enlightener Prize for the book “From atoms to tree: Introduction to the modern science of life”
In the middle of the desert there is a scientist - in a white shirt, suit, hat and tie. In his hands he holds packages with samples of seeds collected with a risk to life. This is how Nikolai Vavilov appears in the book - a geneticist who was looking for the key to get rid of the world from hunger, fell into an avalanche of Stalinist repressions and died of hunger in prison, without departing from his scientific views. Peter Prungl also says about Vavilov"s associates, with whom the Soviet regime mercilessly dealt
Author, based on recently open archival documents, personal and official correspondence, bright reports on expeditions, previously not published family letters and diaries, as well as memoirs of eyewitnesses, most fully and cinematographically recreates the course of events and portraits of heroes.
The book contains rare archival photos.
One of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, Nikolai Vavilov dreamed of ending the hunger in the world, but in 1943 he himself died of hunger in a Saratov prison. The pioneer of domestic genetics, the indefatigable and cheerful hunter for plants was the victim of the ideologization of Stalinist science. Nicholas Vavilov could not contrast the pressure of the cynical demagogue-conjunker Trofim Lysenko to the pressure of the pressure of Trofim Lysenko. Cleaning of geneticists threw domestic science to the whole generation back and caused great harm to the country.
Recreating the story of how the greatest humanitarian mission led Nikolai Vavilov to starvation, Peter Prunge relied on recent archival documents, personal and official correspondence, vivid expeditions, previously not published family letters and diaries, as well as the memoirs of eyewitnesses . A deeply human and bright story draws a very lively image of a brilliant scientist, a life -loving and ascetic, who, until the very last days, has not parted with his great dream.
Expert reviews
Oh, how many plots! Oh, where is Shakespeare? - wrote about the events of the first half of the 20th century Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The book of Peter Princess in detail, fully, logically tells about the brilliant life of the path and the terrible death of Nikolai Vavilov, a scientist, about whom we have heard, perhaps, everyone who is interested in biology and its history. For such people, this book is required to read.
Sergey Yastrebov, scientific journalist, biologist, laureate of the Enlightener Prize for the book “From atoms to tree: Introduction to the modern science of life”
In the middle of the desert there is a scientist - in a white shirt, suit, hat and tie. In his hands he holds packages with samples of seeds collected with a risk to life. This is how Nikolai Vavilov appears in the book - a geneticist who was looking for the key to get rid of the world from hunger, fell into an avalanche of Stalinist repressions and died of hunger in prison, without departing from his scientific views. Peter Prungl also says about Vavilov"s associates, with whom the Soviet regime mercilessly dealt
Author:
Author:Прингл Питер
Cover:
Cover:Hard
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- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:0+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-9614-3450-7
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