Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky

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Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky : biography

1900 – 28 March 1981
  • N. Riehl, R. Rompe, N. W. Timoféeff-Ressovsky und K. G. Zimmer Über Energiewanderungsvorgänge und Ihre Bedeutung Für Einige Biologische Prozesse, Protoplasma Volume 38, Number 1, 105-126 (1943). The article was received on 19 April 1943.

Scientific associations

Timofeev-Resovskij was a member of the following organizations and societies:Vogt, 1998, 20.

  • Academician (active member) in the Deutsche Akademie der Leopoldina (German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina) in Halle from 1940
  • Fellow of the Moskovskoe Obshchestvo Isp’itatelej Prirody (MOIP) (Moscow Society of Naturalists)
  • Fellow of the Vsesoyuznovo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva SSSR (All-union Geographical Society USSR)
  • Fellow of the Vsesoyuznogo Botanicheskogo Obshchestva SSSR (All-union Botanical Society USSR)
  • Founding member of the German Biophysical Society
  • Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, USA
  • Honorary member of the Italian Society of Experimental Biology
  • Honorary member of the Genetics Society, Leeds, Great Britain
  • Honorary member of the Mendeleev Society in Lund, Sweden
  • Honorary member and founding member of the Vavilovskoe Obshchestvo Genetikov i Selektsionerov (VOGiS) imeni N. I. Vavilov (Vavilov Society of Genetics and Selection in the name of N. I. Vavilov), USSR
  • Scientific member of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften (Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of the Sciences) from 1938. [After World War II, the Society was renamed the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften.]

Education

Nikolaj Vladimirovich Timofeev-Resovski,”Николай Владимирович Тимофеев-Ресовский” transliterated, from a one-to-one American English convention on the Cyrillic alphabet, becomes “Nikolaj Vladimirovich Timofeev-Resovskij”. began his university education from 1916 to 1917 at the Moscow City People’s University named after A. L. Shanyavskij. From 1917 to 1922, he studied at the First Moscow State University.Ivanov and Liapunova, 1990, not paginated; see also N. V. Timofeev-Resovskij Kratkaya Avtobiograficheskaya Zapiska (Brief Autobiographical Note) not paginated .

The First World War and the consequences of the Russian Revolution of 1917 interrupted his education for periods of time. At the outbreak of the Russian Civil War, Timofeev-Resovskij was a follower of the anarchist Peter Kropotkin. In 1918, he volunteered to serve in a small anarchist cavalry unit, which was part of the Green army, i.e., they were neither supporters of the Bolshevik Red army nor the White army of General Anton Ivanovich Denikin. Eventually, in 1919, the anarchists joined the Red army. As a private in the 12th Red Army, Timofeev-Resovskij took part in the last battle of the Civil War in the Crimea on the Polish front.Medvedev, 1982, no pagination.Ratner, 2001.

A paper trail of his education was swept away in the chaos of war. Timofeev-Resovskij abandoned his education without a scientific degree; he left formal education with only a gold medal. Even though he eventually became a recognized world-class scientist, he would later, as a requirement for employment, be required to complete his doctorate. He defended his doctoral dissertation in 1963 in Sverdlovsk, and he was awarded a Doctor of Science diploma in 1964.