| Authorised form of name | Vavilov; Nicholas Ivanovich (1887 - 1943) |
| Dates | 1887 - 1943 |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Date of birth | 26 November 1887 |
| Date of death | 26/01/1943 |
| Occupation | Plant geneticist |
| Activity | Career:
Worked with Bateson at John Innes Horticultural Institution (1913-1914); visited Persia and surrounding countries for work on cereals (1916); Professor of agriculture, botany and genetics, Saratov (1917); head of All Union Institute of Plant Industry; head of Bureau of Genetics, USSR Academy of Sciences; appointed by Lenin as President of Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Director of the Institute of Applied Botany; editor of 'Bulletin of applied botany, genetics and plant breeding'; his views on genetics and evolution were not popular in government circles; conflict with Lysenko (1939), lost his official posts; invited to be president of the International Congress of Genetics in 1939 but had to withdraw as the Russians decided to take no part in the Congress; arrested in 1940 as an alleged British spy and for following Huxley and sent to far north-east of Siberia where he died.
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| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 18/06/1942 |
| Relationships | Hi brother Sergei was also a distinguished physicist and president of the USSR Academy of Sciences. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1954 vol 9 pp 259-264, plate, by S C Harland
Elena S Levina, Vladimir D Yesakov, L Kisselev, 'Nikolai Vavilov: life in the cause of science or science at a cost of life' (2005) |
| Code | NA5485 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1942/24 | Vavilov, Nicholas Ivanovich: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/50/288 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr [Nicholas Ivanovich] Vavilov, 223 Earl's Court Road, S.W. | 10 June 1914 |