Nikolai Konstantinowitsch Kolzow

NK Kolzow (1939)

Nikolai Konstantinovich Koltsov ( Russian Николай Константинович Кольцов ; born July 3 ^jul. / 15. July 1872 ^greg. In Moscow , † 2. December 1940 in Leningrad ) was a Russian biologist and a pioneer of modern genetics. Nikolai Timofejew-Ressovsky , Vladimir Efroimson and Nikolai Dubinin were among his students .

During the Stalin Purges , Koltsov was attacked as an opponent of Lysenkoism . On December 2, 1940, the NKVD poisoned him . His wife committed suicide that same day. They were buried in Moscow's Vvedenskoye Cemetery.

In 1933 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

At the end of the 1970s the Kolzowo settlement in Novosibirsk Oblast was named after him.

literature

RA Fando : The beginnings of eugenics in Russia. Cognitive and socio-cultural aspects . Logos Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8325-3738-8 .

Individual evidence

^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed on December 28, 2019 (here the spelling Koltzoff ).

personal data
SURNAME	Kolzow, Nikolai Konstantinowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Кольцов, Николай Константинович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian biologist and pioneer of modern genetics
DATE OF BIRTH	July 15, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow
DATE OF DEATH	2nd December 1940
Place of death	Leningrad

[1] Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed on December 28, 2019 (here the spelling Koltzoff ).