Nikolai Petrovich Dubinin
Nikolai Petrovich Dubinin , Russian Николай Петрович Дубинин , (born January 4, 1907 in Kronstadt (Russia) , † March 26, 1998 in Moscow ) was a Russian geneticist .
Life
Dubinin graduated from Lomonosov University in Moscow in 1928 and from 1932 worked at various institutes of the Soviet Academy of Sciences . From 1956 to 1966 he was head of the Laboratory for Radiation Genetics at the Institute for Biophysics, 1957 to 1959 he was the founder and director of the Institute for Cytology and Genetics (Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences) and in 1966 he became director of the Academy's Institute for General Genetics .
Dubinin was a student of Sergei Sergejewitsch Tschetwerikow and Nikolai Konstantinowitsch Kolzow .
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He dealt with general genetics and evolutionary aspects of genetics, as well as applications in agriculture and radiation biology. Dubinin achieved success in cytogenetics and at the end of the 1940s was to become the head of an institute of the Academy of Sciences, which, in contrast to the then dominant Lysenkoism, pursued classical genetics, but this was stopped until Stalin's death. Instead he worked after the closure of his institute in 1948 due to the initiatives of Lyssenko from 1949 to 1955 at the Forest Institute of the Academy of Sciences, where he dealt with afforestation and ornithology and regularly undertook expeditions to the Urals .
Honors
In 1946 he became a corresponding and in 1966 full member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1958 he became a member of the Leopoldina . In 1959 he received the Darwin plaque and in 1966 the Lenin Prize . In 1967 Dubinin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1969 to the National Academy of Sciences .
Web links
- Literature by and about Nikolai Petrowitsch Dubinin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry of Nikolaj P. Dubinin at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 22, 2015.
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter D. (PDF; 575 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed March 15, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dubinin, Nikolai Petrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Дубинин, Николай Петрович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian geneticist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th January 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kronstadt (Russia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1998 |
| Place of death | Moscow |