Karpechenko Georgii

(3.05.1899 - 28.07.1941)

Born g.Velske Vologda Province. surveyor in the family, he graduated from high school Vologda. In 1917, Mr.. enrolled in the Perm State University, and a year later transferred to the Department of Plant Industry of the Moscow Academy of Agriculture. Pupil SI Zhegalov, one of the pioneers of scientific breeding. After graduating from the Academy on the Department of Plant Breeding. In 1925, Mr.. invited by Vavilov in VIR, organized the laboratory of genetics in Tsarskoe Selo (Pushkin). Student and deputy GD Karpechenko the laboratory was AA Lutkov; worked in the laboratory MI Khadzhinov, Fedoroff, etc.. In 1925, Mr.. GD Karpechenko visited the genetic laboratories 9 European countries in 1927. participated in the Genetics Congress in Berlin, October 1929. February 1931. Rockefeller fellowship to work in the United States in the laboratories of E. Bebkoka and T. Morgan. In 1931, Mr.. organized and headed the Department of Plant Genetics at the Leningrad University, where until 1941. Taught general course of genetics. In studies on distant hybridization, started in Moscow and continued to VlR, demonstrated the role of polyploidy in overcoming infertility hybrids. Became the classic work on the cabbage-redechnym hybrids was published in 1927. Participant discussions with Lysenkoists in 1936. and 1939. In February 1941, Mr.. was arrested on the usual charges of espionage and subversive activities, . to which was added to an open struggle under the leadership of NI Vavilov against "best practices research and the most valuable achievements of Lysenko to obtain high yields",
. Shot.




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