Yuri Alexandrovich Filipchenko
Yuri Alexandrowitsch Filipchenko ( Russian Юрий Александрович Филипченко ; English transcription Yuri Aleksandrovich Filipchenko ; born February 13, 1882 in Slin , Oryol Governorate ; died May 19, 1930 in Leningrad ) was a Soviet geneticist . Together with Tenis Karlowitsch Lepin , he was considered a leading specialist on the question of the variability and inheritance of qualitative and quantitative characteristics of wheat .
In 1917 Filipchenko received the post-doctoral degree in zoology and comparative anatomy . From 1918 he worked as a lecturer and professor. He headed a chair in genetics and experimental zoology at Leningrad University . In 1930 he lost his position as a result of the ostracism of eugenic concepts in the USSR . Shortly afterwards, he died of meningitis . His wife Nadezhda and his son Gleb died during the Leningrad blockade . His brother, the bacteriologist and parasitologist AA Filipchenko, was arrested in 1937 and perished in the gulag .
literature
- Rose-Luise Winkler (ed.): At the origins of scientific sociological thinking. 1st edition. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2013 ISBN 978-3-864-64041-4 p. 700.
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| SURNAME | Filipchenko, Yuri Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Филипченко, Юрий Александрович (Russian); Filipchenko, Yuri Aleksandrovich (English transcription) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet geneticist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Slin , Oryol Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 1930 |
| Place of death | Leningrad |