Agol ISRAEL Iosifovich

(20.11.1891 - 10.03.1937)
Born in a large family of a carpenter in Bobruisk. In the footsteps of older sister went to the revolution. In 1909, Mr.. graduated from high school in Vilna (now Vilnius). Joined the party Bund. Since 1915. - Member RSDLP. I wanted to be a writer, began writing poetry. During the First World War, drafted into the army. Revolution 1917. found him in Belarus, where he was involved in party work (Bobruisk, Minsk, in 1919. - Member of the Central Election Commission of Belarus). In 1919-1921 he. participated in the civil war in 1920,. published the first article (of Engels). Since 1921. - Moscow. He worked in the newspaper "Pravda", "Trud", he studied at the medical faculty of Moscow University, graduating in 1923. He worked as a psychiatrist, at the end of 1924. enrolled in the Institute of Red Professors at Faculty of Philosophy, then at the Faculty of Natural Sciences. Expressed interest in the problems of heredity and evolution. In 1925, Mr.. After graduation he worked together with VN Slepkov laboratory BM Zavadovskiy at the Sverdlov University on the issue of inheritance of acquired characters. In 1926, Mr.. published several articles devoted to criticism of the idealist and mechanistic views, especially the neo-vitalism (based on the foreign press). In 1927, Mr.. published a book on evolution ( "The dialectical method and the evolutionary theory"). At that time, paying tribute to Lamarckism, argued that any organism is a unity of pheno-genotype, which is directly on the genotype of nature can not influence only through som. He began work in the laboratory of AS Serebrovsky at the Moscow Institute of Animal Husbandry at the Communist Academy, where he studied mutations in Drosophila under the influence of X-rays. He performed the original work on the three-dimensional structure of the gene and quickly became one of the influential of the former Soviet geneticists. In 1929, as director of the Biological Institute. Timiryazev, participated in the All-Union Conference of Marxist-Leninist institutions. Criticized Lamarckism. After the conference, the Institute was reorganized, it was established genetic laboratory, headed by Serebrovskii. In the laboratory involved in obtaining artificial mutations in Drosophila, the study of alleles of scute, domestic chicken gene pool. In the early 30-ies. I. Agol trained in the laboratory G. Muller (USA) on Rockefeller Fellowships. Since 1932. worked in the Ukrainian Association of Marxist-Leninist scientific research institutes. Since 1934, Mr.. - Academician of the USSR. In 1934-1937. headed the Department of Genetics, Institute of Zoology and Biology, Ukraine Academy of Sciences. In 1937, Mr.. shot. He was rehabilitated posthumously.