[To the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson (1908-1989)].
Professor Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson is one of the most prominent Russian geneticists, a former student of N.K. Kolt'tsov, who was among the geneticists that had to struggle against the presecution of genetics in the Soviet Union. Efroimson has discovered the formula of mutation rate in human (1932). He was a laeding specialist in genetics and breeding of silkworm and defended his condidate (1941) and doctoral (1947) dissertations on the subiect. He wrote the first Russian monograph on genetics The Introduction to Medical Genetics (1964)--the book that triddered the revival of human genetics in the Soviet Union. Efroimson was a veteran of the World War II, he fought in the army in 1941 through 1945 and was awarded military decorations. He was presecuted two times in 1932 ans 1949. Efroimson spent 10 years in Gulag and for 25 years was banned from scientific work. He was the autor of three monographs and over 100 scientific papers and the editor of many books on different issues of genetics. Efroimson entered the annals of Russian science as an outstsnding researcher, but also as an inblinking fighter for the truth, an uncompromising opponent of antiscientific directions in biology, an ardent advocate of genetics and the moral standart of a true scientist.
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