Vavilov Institute of General Genetics

Marina Yu Sorokina, Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Published online: March 2009

DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0003633

The article presents the origin, institutional and scientific development, structure and staff of the Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, the Russian Academy of Sciences. It focuses on the tragic fate of genetics in the Soviet Union during Staline's regime and on efforts of the Institute's founder – academician Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (1887–1943) and his followers to promote an international level genetic studies within the Institute.

Keywords: general genetics; Russian Academy of Sciences

 Further Reading
    other Adams M (1973) Genetics and Molecular Biology in Khrushchev's Russia, PhD dissertation, Harvard University, Boston, MA.
    book Dubinin NP (1992) Istoriia i tragediia sovetskoi genetiki. Moscow: Nauka.
    book Krementsov N (1997) Stalinist Science. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
    book Soyfer VN (1994) Lysenko and the Tragedy of Soviet Science. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Related Sub-Topics:

History | Scientific Organisations
Contact Editor close
Submit a note to the editor about this article by filling in the form below.

* Required Field

Article Title: Vavilov Institute of General Genetics
 
How to Cite close
Sorokina, Marina Yu(Mar 2009) Vavilov Institute of General Genetics. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0003633]