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    hero of Soviet science. Vavilov was born into a merchant family in Moscow, the older brother of physicist Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov. Despite his strict upbringing...
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    Fabaceae (redirect from Pea Family)
    beah) / B.S. Kurlovich and S.I. Repyev (Eds.), - St. Petersburg, The N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry, 1995, 438p. - (Theoretical basis of plant...
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  • Nikolai Vavilov (Russian: Николай Вавилов) is a 1990 6-part biographical television film. Joint production of the USSR and East Germany. Biopic devoted...
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    laboratory of Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, whom he regarded as his mentor. After graduating in 1930, on recommendation of Vavilov, he started working at the...
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  • astronomer William Herschel Viggo Mortensen as Soviet plant geneticist Nikolai Vavilov Judd Hirsch as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb Sasha...
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  • Examples of these are honey, ants, mussels, crabs and coconuts. Nikolai Vavilov initially identified the centers of origin for eight crop plants, subdividing...
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    enabling statute. In Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v Vavilov, the Supreme Court of Canada held that where a statute provides for an...
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  • geneticist Nikolai Vavilov and his physicist brother Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov. Vavilov is located in the dynamical region of the Flora family (402), a giant...
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    Theoretical basis of plant breeding. Vol. 111. St. Petersburg: N. I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry. p. 438. Nicholas, Lorna (2020-05-18). "Wide...
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    scientific opponents. The president of the Soviet Agriculture Academy, Nikolai Vavilov, who had been Lysenko's mentor, but later denounced him, was sent to prison...
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  • Harlan was also a friend of the famous Russian plant scientist Nikolai Vavilov. "FamilySearch.org". ancestors.familysearch.org. Retrieved 2023-09-29. Harlan...
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    from Nova Scotia. His paternal grandmother was from Trondheim, Norway. The family moved to Venezuela, then Denmark, and eventually settled in Argentina. They...
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  • (1965). "The Vavilov Brothers". Slavic Review. 24 (3): 381–394. doi:10.2307/2492262. JSTOR 2492262. (See Nikolai Vavilov and Sergey Vavilov.) Joravsky,...
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    Qinghai, Shaanxi, and Shanxi According to the Soviet botanist Nikolai Vavilov, the center of origin of P. armeniaca is Central Asia, where its domestication...
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    sentenced to death as enemies of the state, including the botanist Nikolai Vavilov. Lysenko's ideas and practices contributed to the famines that killed millions...
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    oilseeds, cereals, potatoes, sugarcane, and vegetables. Ethiopia is also a Vavilov centre of diversity for domesticated crops, including enset, coffee Okra...
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    genetic studies, which instead confirm the hypothesis proposed by Nikolai Vavilov that domestication of P. armeniaca occurred in Central Asia and China....
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    fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. Nikolai Vavilov was best known for having identified the centres of origin of cultivated...
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    teosinte origin theory was proposed by the Russian botanist Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov in 1931, and the American Nobel Prize-winner George Beadle in 1932.: 10 ...
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    cultivars can be found at the Nordic Genetic Resource Center in Sweden and the Vavilov Institute of Plant-Genetic Resources in Russia. Black salsify cultivars...
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    study identifying constituents of C. sativa established 19 major chemical families (number of chemicals within group): Acids (18) Alcohols (6) Aldehydes (12)...
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  • choral setting by Franz Biebl (before 1959) "Ave Maria" (Vavilov) (1970), an aria by Vladimir Vavilov, falsely ascribed to Giulio Caccini "Ave Maria", a choral...
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    Cary Fowler (category Sol Goldman family)
    agriculture and the preservation of biodiversity. Fowler has also received the Vavilov Medal from the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. In 2010, he was...
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    Building on the extensive earlier work of Alphonse de Candolle, Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943) produced accounts of the biogeography, centres of origin, and...
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    contains various famous arias and hymns ("Panis angelicus", "Ave Maria (Vavilov)"). The albums Amira and Merry Christmas were produced by the record label...
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    European composers. These include Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Bortniansky, Vavilov (his version often misattributed to Caccini), Mikhail Shukh, Lyudmyla Hodzyumakha...
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    Secretary of State in December 1936 concerning the arrest of Agol, Nikolai Vavilov, and Levit, in which he wrote: As a geneticist, I strongly protest against...
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    Janisch, as alternative names. In 1929, renowned plant explorer Nikolai Vavilov assigned wild or feral populations of Cannabis in Afghanistan to C. indica...
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    keynote address at the 2012 RIT Reading Digital Symposium. Her screenplay, Vavilov, won a 2002 UCLA Sloan Foundation Student Film Award. She is the creator...
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    Perú: un conjunto socio-ecológico frente a riesgos extremos" [The center Vavilov year in Peru: a socio-ecological set against extreme risks] (PDF). Tikpa...
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