Sergei Sergejewitsch Tschetwerikow

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Sergei Chetverikov , Russian Сергей Сергеевич Четвериков , English transcription Chetverikov , (born April 24 . Jul / 6. May  1880 greg. In Moscow , † 2. June 1959 in Gorky ) was a Russian / Soviet entomologist , geneticist and evolutionary biologist .

Life

Tschetwerikow was from 1921 head of the genetics department of the Moscow Koltsov Institute for Experimental Biology. Since the rulers in the Soviet Union did not like the independence of the group of evolutionary biologists and geneticists to which Cheetverikov belonged, he was arrested in 1929 and banished from Moscow. Until 1932 he advised the zoo in Sverdlovsk and then taught mathematics at the technical center in Vladimir until 1935 . From 1935 to 1948 he was a professor of genetics at Gorky University . He was fired due to Lysenkoism , which suppressed modern genetics in the Soviet Union. Cheetverikov then lived in poverty, went blind and died before modern genetics were rehabilitated in the Soviet Union.

He studied the mutations in natural populations of insects and examined genetic variability in the context of the theory of evolution. His work influenced Nikolai Wladimirowitsch Timofejew-Ressowski , who undertook similar research, and Theodosius Dobzhansky , one of the founders of the synthetic theory of evolution . While their work became known in the West and statisticians like Ronald Fisher carried out work similar to Cheetverikov, his work was long forgotten. In 1961 an English translation of his major work from 1926 was published.

As an entomologist, he was particularly concerned with butterflies and collected many, for example in the Caucasus, Crimea and Lapland.

In 1959 the Leopoldina awarded him the Darwin badge .

Fonts

  • Evolutionary processes from the standpoint of modern genetics, Journal for Experimental Biology, A 2, 1926, pp. 2–54 (Russian)
    • English translation: On certain aspects of the evolutionary process from the standpoint of modern genetics, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 105, 1961, pp. 167-195.

literature

  • Mark Adams: Sergei Chetverikov, the Kol'tsov Institute, and the evolutionary synthesis. In: Ernst Mayr , William B. Provine: The Evolutionary Synthesis. Harvard University Press 1998.

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personal data
SURNAME Tschetwerikow, Sergei Sergejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Четвериков, Сергей Сергеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet entomologist, geneticist and evolutionary biologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1959
Place of death Gorky