"Founder of the most important scientific direction": 135 years since the birth of Nikolai Vavilov
2022-11-25T07:13:19.680Z
On November 25, 1887, the outstanding Russian and Soviet scientist Nikolai Vavilov was born - a botanist, geneticist and geographer, the first president of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. IN AND. Lenin. His collection of plants has become one of the largest in the world. He formulated the law of homological series, which made it possible to predict the possibility of finding new forms of plants. In addition, Vavilov created the doctrine of the centers of origin of cultivated plants and their diversity. Colleagues called him a scientist who wanted to feed all of humanity.
Source: russiart