Zhores Medvedev

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Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev (Russian: Жорес Медведев) (born in Tbilisi, Georgia] on November 14, 1925) is a Russian biologist, historian and dissident. His first name is properly spelled Jaurès, as he was named for the French socialist leader.

He is famous for exposing the nuclear disaster which occurred in the Urals in the fifties. He was one of the earliest victims of official attempts to stifle opposition by detaining dissidents in mental institutions. He was diagnosed as suffering from "sluggishly progressing schizophrenia" and was placed by force to psikhushka in 1970. Academicians Pyotr Kapitsa and Andrei Sakharov defended him. [1]

He was exiled in 1973 from the Soviet Union and now lives with his wife in London where he is a senior research scientist for the National Institute for Medical Research and now a specialist in gerontology.

He is the author of "The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko" (1969), "The Medvedev Papers" (1971), "Soviet Science" (1978), and "The Nuclear Disaster in the Urals" (1979).

His twin brother Roy Medvedev is a historian, they coauthored Khrushchev: The Years in Power released in 1978. The brothers also wrote several other books. He had two sons, one of whom is deceased. The other, Dimitri, ran The Blue Bridge café in Camden, London, before moving to the West Country.

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


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