List of Russian biologists
This list of Russian biologists includes the famous biologists from the Russian Federation , the Soviet Union , the Russian Empire and other predecessor states of Russia. Biologists of all specialities may be listed here, including ecologists , botanists , zoologists , paleontologists , biochemists , physiologists and others.
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Karl Ernst von Baer Russian Entomological Society , formulated embryological Baer's laws Alexander Barchenko Hyperborea Jacques von Bedriaga herpetologist , described Bedriaga's rock lizard and Bedriaga's skink Andrey Belozersky molecular biology Dmitry Belyayev domesticated silver fox Lev Berg ichthyologist of Central Asia and European Russia Yuli Berkovich Nikolai Bernstein biomechanics Vladimir Betz primary motor cortex Anatoli Petrovich Bogdanov biologist Andrey Bolotov agriculturist , discovered dichogamy , pioneered cross-pollination August von Bongard botanist of Alaska , discoverer of Sitka spruce and red alder Antonina Borissova Zinaida Botschantzeva Alexander Bunge Siberia (especially Altai )Alexey Bystrow
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Ilya Darevsky Nikolay Dubinin
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Kozo-Polyansky Georgii Karpechenko rabbage , an early experimental allopolyploid and non-sterile hybrid obtained through crossbreeding of distant speciesKarl Fedorovich Kessler Alexander Keyserling Nikolai Koltsov cytoskeleton Vladimir Komarov plant geographer , President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences , founder of the Komarov Botanical Institute Aleksei Alekseevich Korotnev Alexander Kovalevsky gastrulation Vladimir Kovalevsky meteorological , hydrological , and temperature factors on harvest Alexey Kondrashov evolutionary genetics . Developed the deterministic mutation hypothesis explaining the maintenance of sexual reproduction, sympatric speciation , and evaluated mutation ratesBoris Kozo-Polyansky symbiogenesis with Darwinian evolution, and first director of The B.M. Kozo-Polyansky Botanical Garden of Voronezh State University .August David Krohn Chaetognatha (arrow worms)Peter Kropotkin Ludmila Kuprianova Andrei Kursanov Sergei Kurzanov Nikolai Jakovlevice Kusnezov entomologist
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Alexander Lebedev Olga Lepeshinskaya spontaneous generation Ivan Lepyokhin Peter Lesgaft Vladimir Ippolitovich Lipsky Dmitry Litvinov Trofim Lysenko yarovization , infamous for lysenkoism Merezhkovsky Michurin
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Evgeny Maleev Talarurus , Tarbosaurus , and Therizinosaurus Karl Maximovich Far Eastern flora Ilya Mechnikov immune system , probiotics and phagocytosis , coined the term gerontology Nobel Prize in Medicine winnerZhores Medvedev Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay ethnologist Sergei Mirkin DNA researcherAndrey Vasilyevich Martynov entomologist Mikhail Menzbier ornithologist , discoverer of the Menzbier's marmot Konstantin Merezhkovsky lichenologist , developer of symbiogenesis theory, a founder of endosymbiosis theoryIvan Michurin pomologist , selectionist and geneticist , practiced crossing of geographically distant plants, created hundreds of fruit cultivars Alexander Middendorf permafrost on living beings, coined the term "radula ", horse breeder Victor Motschulsky coleopterologist (researcher of beetles )Dmitrii Mushketov
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Heinz Christian Pander germ layers Peter Simon Pallas Pallas's cat , Pallas's squirrel , and Pallas's gull Vladimir Pasechnik biologist Ivan Pavlov physiology , the first to research classical conditioning , Nobel Prize in Medicine winnerAlexander Petrunkevitch Nikolay Pirogov field surgery . Was one of the first surgeons in Europe to use ether as an anaesthetic Vladimir Pravdich-Neminsky EEG and the evoked potential of the mammalian brainYevgenia Georgievna Pobedimova Maria Prokhorova gas gangrene during the Great Patriotic War Nikolai Przhevalsky the only extant species of wild horse
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Lina Stern Timiryazev
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Ivan Schmalhausen modern evolutionary synthesis Leopold von Schrenck Amur sturgeon , Manchurian black water snake and Schrenck's bittern Boris Schwanwitsch military camouflage during World War II Ivan Sechenov electrophysiology and neurophysiology Andrey Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky Aleksandr Grigorevich Sharov Vladimir Shevyakov protistologist Pyotr Shirshov hydrobiologist , participant of many arctic expeditions including the first drifting ice station , North Pole-1 , researched plankton in polar regions and proved there is life in high altitudes of the Arctic Ocean , founded and headed the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Victor Shmidt microscopic anatomy and embryology Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shmuk biochemistry of tobaccoJulian Simashko Norair Sisakian space biology , pioneer in biochemistry of sub-cell structures and technical biochemistryAlexey Skvortsov Boris Sergeyevich Sokolov Alexander Spirin biochemistry of nucleic acids , and protein biosynthesis Yaroslav Starobogatov Georg Wilhelm Steller Vitus Bering 's voyages, discoverer of Steller's jay , Steller's eider , extinct Steller's sea cow and multiple other animalsLina Stern blood–brain barrier and first female full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Sukachev geobotanist
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Armen Takhtajan Takhtajan system of flowering plant classification, major biogeographer Valery Taliev geobotanist Aleksandr Tikhomirov Kliment Timiryazev chlorophyll Nikolai Timofeeff-Ressovsky radiation genetics , population genetics , and microevolution Vladimir Andreevich Tranzschel mycologist , expert on rust fungi Lev Tsenkovsky ontogenesis of lower plants and animalsMikhail Tsvet chromatography Mikhail Voronin fungi and plant pathology Vavilov Vinogradsky
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Nikolai Vavilov seeds , identified the centres of origin of main cultivated plantsVladimir Vernadsky biogeochemistry , pioneered research into the noosphere Olga Vinogradova neuroscientist Sergey Vinogradsky biogeochemical cycle concept, discovered lithotrophy and chemosynthesis , invented the Winogradsky column for breeding of microorganisms Roman Vishniac
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