Nikolai Vavilov
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Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov was a Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist who identified the centers of origin of cultivated plants. His research focused on improvement of wheat, maize an
Vavilov in 1933
Vavilov's 1924 scheme of centers of origin suggested that plants were domesticated in China, Hindustan, Central Asia, Asia Minor, Mediterranean, Abyssinia, Central and South America.
Vavilov created the world's first seed bank in the Institute of Plant Industry, Leningrad.
Vavilov (fifth from left) alongside geneticist Albert Boerger during his visit to Uruguay in 1932
Sergey Vavilov
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Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov was a Soviet physicist, the president of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union from July 1945 until his death. His elder brother Nikolai Vavilov was a famous Russian gen
Nikolai Vavilov
…be hailed as a hero of Soviet science. Nikolai Vavilov was born on 25 November 1887 into a merchant family in Moscow, the older brother of physicist Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov. Despite his strict upbringing in the Orthodox Church, he was an atheist. His father had grown up in poverty due to recurring crop failures and food…
Vavilov in 1945