GERSHENSON Sergey

(11.02.1906 - 7.04.1998)
Born in the family of the famous philosopher and literaturovedaM.O.Gershenzona in Moscow. He graduated from Moscow University (1927), a student Chetverikov. In 1931-1935 he. worked at the Biological Institute im.K.A.Timiryazeva, in 1935-1937 he. - The Institute of Genetics, USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1937. moved to Kiev, where in 1937-1963 he. worked at the Institute of Zoology, in 1963-1968 he. - At the Institute of Microbiology and Virology, SSR. V1968-1973. headed the Molecular Biology and Genetics, Azat - the department in an organized on the basis of the Branch Institutemolekulyarnoy Biology and Genetics, USSR Academy of Sciences. Since 1986. - SotrudnikInstituta Plant Physiology and Genetics, USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1937-1941. i1944-1948. headed the department of genetics and Darwinism KievskogoUniversiteta. SM Gershenzon led Chetverikov began izuchatgeneticheskuyu structure and genetic processes in populations drozofil.Vposledstvii held extensive study of melanism in populations of hamster. V1939 g. opened the mutagenic action of exogenous DNA. In the 50-60th godyizuchal molecular biology of entomopathogenic viruses. During etihissledovany first obtained experimental data showing an ovozmozhnosti reverse transfer information from RNA to DNA. Hero of Socialist Labor (1990).




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