Talk:Nikolai Vavilov

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I've removed the following section:

One of his students in genetics was Molotov, who allegedly mixed his infamous cocktail, hoping to eradicate Vavilov by exploding it into his home.[citation needed] Fortunately, Vavilov wasn't there at the time.

The story sounds false, given that "one of his infamous cocktails" implies that Molotov had something to do with the invention or use of them, when the name derives itself is a Finnish joke. (See Molotov cocktail).

Feel free to add it back if you think it belongs. g026r 04:44, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] In 1940 he was jailed as a defender of the "bourgeois pseudoscience" (genetics) in a struggle with Lysenkoism

Strange phrase. Lysenko was himself the director of Institute of Genetics. ---Dojarca 13:54, 17 September 2007 (UTC)