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Nikolai Vavilov: The scientist who wanted to feed the world and died of starvation

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Nikolai Vavilov: The scientist who wanted to feed the world and died of starvation
14.99 €
Nikolai Vavilov, one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, dreamed of ending world hunger, but in 1943 he himself died of hunger in a Saratov prison. The pioneer of domestic genetics, a tireless and indefatigable plant hunter, became a victim of Stalin's ideologization of science. Nikolai Vavilov, who did not pass up neither scientific difficulties, nor the most difficult expeditions to the wildest corners of the Earth, could not resist the pressure of the cynical demagogue-conjuncturist Trofim Lysenko. The purge of geneticists set domestic science back a generation and did the country great harm. In reconstructing the story of how the greatest humanitarian mission led Nikolai Vavilov to starvation, Peter Pringle drew on newly discovered archival documents, personal and official correspondence, vivid expedition reports, previously unpublished family letters and diaries, and eyewitness recollections. The deeply human and vivid story paints a very vivid image of a brilliant scientist, a life-lover and an ascetic, who until his last days did not part with his great dream.
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