Sergei Chetverikov

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Sergei Sergeevich Chetverikov ( 1880-1959) was one of founders of population genetics and synthetic theory of evolution.

In 1926 Chetverikov produced what would have been one of the landmark papers of the modern evolutionary synthesis. However, being in Russian it was ignored in the English-speaking world, shortly before Soviet science was scuppered by Lysenkoism and only came to light after his death, by which time others (J.B.S. Haldane, R.A. Fisher Sewall Wright) had worked out the details.

Sergei Chetverikov worked at Nikolai Koltsov Institute of Experimental Biology. He was arrested by OGPU in 1929 and sent to exile to Yekaterinburg for five years. He later moved to Nizhny Novgorod and organized the Department of Genetics at Gorky University. He was dismissed from his post by Lysenkoists in 1948 ^[1].

[edit] References

1. ^ Vadim J. Birstein. The Perversion Of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science. Westview Press (2004) ISBN 0813342805

[edit] External links

• The Synthesis Of S. S. Chetverikov
• Article about him (Russian)
• His biography (Russian)