Raissa Lvovna Mountain

Raissa Lvovna Mountain (1940)

Raisa Lvovna Berg ( Russian Раиса Львовна Берг ; born March 27 ^{. Jul} / 9. April 1913 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 1. March 2006 in Paris ) was a Soviet - US American - French geneticist and university lecturer .

Life

Raissa Berg's parents Lev Semjonowitsch Berg and Paulina Adolfowna (Avraamowna) born Katlowker (1881–1943), niece of the editor Benedikt Avraamowitsch Katlowker , came from Jewish families in the Pale of Settlement . Lev Berg was baptized Lutheran in order to study in Moscow and became a zoologist and geographer . Six weeks after Raissa's birth, the parents separated, after which the father retained custody. Raissa and her older brother Simon were baptized Lutheran and were raised by their paternal grandmother Klara Lwowna Berg and, from 1923, by their stepmother Marija Michailovna Ivanovna. Raissa Berg attended a Lutheran school in St. Petersburg ( Annenschule or Petrischule ) with graduation in 1929.

Berg graduated from the Leningrad University (LGU) with completion in 1935 at Hermann Joseph Muller in the field of genetics of animals. This was followed by an apprenticeship with Nikolai Iwanowitsch Wawilow , which she completed in 1939 with defense of her dissertation on the genetic differences between the wild population and the laboratory population of Drosophila melanogaster and a doctorate as a candidate in biological sciences.

After graduating, Berg worked at the Severzow Institute for Evolutionary Morphology of Animals in Moscow with Iwan Iwanowitsch Schmalhausen and began her doctoral thesis on the species as an evolutionary system. After the start of the German-Soviet War in 1941, the institute was evacuated to Kazakhstan . In 1942 Berg returned to Moscow and continued working on her doctoral thesis.

1944–1947 Berg was a research assistant at the Severzow Institute for Evolutionary Morphology of Animals in Moscow. She was a lecturer at the Department of Zoology and Darwinism at the Leningrad State Pedagogical Heart Institute (LGPI). 1945-1952 she was married to the geneticist Valentin Sergejewitsch Kirpitschnikow , with whom she had two daughters.

After the notorious August meeting of the All Union Academy for Agricultural Sciences (WASChNIL) in 1948 with Trofim Denissowitsch Lyssenko's introductory speech "On the Situation in Biology", the scientists representing scientific genetics and Berg were dismissed from their offices. In 1949, Berg temporarily worked at the All Union Research Institute for Sea and River Fish Management.

After Stalin's death in 1953, Berg became an assistant in 1954 and a lecturer in 1957 at the Chair of Darwinism in the Faculty of Biology and Soil Science at LGU. In 1960 she became an employee of the Research Institute for Biology at the LGU. In the autumn of 1962 the poet Joseph Brodsky lived in her dacha in Komarowo and wrote his songs about a happy winter.

In 1963, Berg organized and then headed the Population Genetics Laboratory of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Department (SO) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR, since 1991 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN)) in Novosibirsk . In 1964 she defended her doctoral thesis and was awarded a doctorate in biological sciences. She then became a professor of the Department of General Biology in 1965 and of the Department of Cytology and Genetics of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Novosibirsk State University (NGU) in 1967 . Dissidents met at her , and in 1967 she signed the letter of the 46 against violations of the law in the USSR . whereupon she had to leave Novosibirsk.

In 1968 Berg became a professor at the LGPI. In addition, she was group leader at the Leningrad Agrophysics Institute of WASChNIL from 1968 to 1970. In 1968 she was released from work after reading the collective letter of the scientific workers in defense of the political prisoners Alexander Ilyich Ginsburg (convicted after the publication of the white paper on the political trial against Andrei Donatowitsch Sinyawski and Juli Markowitsch Daniel ), Yuri Timofejewitsch Galanskow and Vera Iossifowna Laschkowa .

In December 1974 Berg emigrated to the USA . She worked at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (1976–1981), at Washington University in St. Louis (1981–1985) and at the University of Missouri – St. Louis (1985-1994).

From 1994 Berg lived in France .

Berg's son Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Kwassow (1932–1989) was a geographer and wrote a book about his grandfather Lev Berg and monographs on the lakes of Eastern Europe and Siberia .

Berg was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris .

Honors, prizes

Web links

Commons : Raïssa Berg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Raissa Lwowna Berg in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Catalog of the Russian National Library : Берг, Раиса Львовна

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Jewish Women's Archive: Raissa L'vovna Berg (accessed February 5, 2020).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Вергасов Ф .: Раиса Львовна Берг (accessed on February 5, 2020).
↑ Указ Президента СССР от 11.11.1990 N УП-1002 О НАГРАЖДЕНИИ ОРДЕНОМ ДРУЖБЫ НАРОДОВ ГРАЖДАНКИ США БЕРГ Р.Л.Л. (accessed on February 6, 2020).

personal data
SURNAME	Berg, Raissa Lvovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Берг, Раиса Львовна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet-US-American-French geneticist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 9, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH	March 1, 2006
Place of death	Paris

[jewish-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Jewish Women's Archive: Raissa L'vovna Berg (accessed February 5, 2020).

[raiss-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Вергасов Ф .: Раиса Львовна Берг (accessed on February 5, 2020).

[3] Указ Президента СССР от 11.11.1990 N УП-1002 О НАГРАЖДЕНИИ ОРДЕНОМ ДРУЖБЫ НАРОДОВ ГРАЖДАНКИ США БЕРГ Р.Л.Л. (accessed on February 6, 2020).