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|name = Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson<br>Владимир Павлович Эфроимсон |
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|caption = Book cover of ''Genetics of |
| caption = Book cover of ''Genetics of Genius'' book by Efraimson published posthumously. The black-and-white photo in the bottom is of Efroimson himself |
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|birth_date = {{birth-date|21 November 1908}} |
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|birth_place = [[Moscow]] |
| birth_place = [[Moscow]], [[Moskovsky Uyezd]], [[Moscow Governorate]], [[Russian Empire]] |
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|death_date = {{death-date|21 July 1989}} |
| death_date = {{death-date and age|21 July 1989|21 November 1908}} |
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|death_place = Moscow |
| death_place = Moscow, [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]] |
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'''Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson''' ({{ |
'''Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson''' ({{langx|ru|Владимир Павлович Эфроимсон}}; 21 November 1908, [[Moscow]] – 21 July 1989, Moscow) was one of the most prominent [[USSR|Soviet]] [[geneticist]]s, a former student of [[Nikolai Koltsov]], who was among the scientists who had to struggle against the persecution of geneticists in the [[Stalinist era]] of the Soviet Union.<ref name=JE>[https://eleven.co.il/article/15137 Эфроимсон Владимир] [[Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia]] {{in lang|ru}}</ref><ref name=peoples>[http://www.peoples.ru/science/biology/efroimson/ Владимир Павлович Эфроимсон] biography on peoples.ru {{in lang|ru}}</ref> He studied mutations and human genetics and was among the first to estimate the rate of spontaneous mutations in human genes in 1932 although this was published first by [[J. B. S. Haldane|J.B.S. Haldane]]. |
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== Life and work == |
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Efroimson entered the Biology Faculty of [[Moscow State University]] in 1925, where he studied under Koltsov. In 1929 he was |
Efroimson was born at the [[Lubyanka Building|Lubyanka All-Russia Insurance Company]] [[Revenue house|revenue house]] in Moscow (which was turned into the headquarters of the [[Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies|Soviet secret police]] after the [[October Revolution]]), the son of a banker and a nurse. He studied in an elite bilingual German school and entered the Biology division of Math and Physics Faculty of [[Moscow State University]] in 1925, where he studied under Nikolai Koltsov. In 1929 he was expelled from the university for his speech against the persecution of his teacher [[Sergei Chetverikov]], the founder of [[population genetics]]. In 1929-1931 Efroimson worked in the ''Trans-Caucasian Institute for Silk Worm Growing'' in [[Tbilisi]]. In 1929-1931 he worked in Moscow Radiation Institute. In 1932 he published six scientific works and discovered the formula of [[mutation rate]] in humans. In December 1932 he was arrested for his participation in the "Free Philosophic Society". In 1935 he was freed from labour camps in the Altai region. He started to work for the ''Central Asian Institute for Silk Worm Growing''. In one and a half years he made important discoveries in the [[silkworm]] genetics. In 1937 he was expelled from the institute under pretext of inefficiency at work, and the pure-bred lines of silkworms he had bred were killed and copies his book ''Genetics of Silkworm'' published by the [[USSR Academy of Sciences]] were destroyed. In 1939-1941 he worked for the ''All-Ukrainian Silkworm Station'' in [[Merefa]] and obtained his [[Kandidat]] degree from [[Kharkov University]] (1941).<ref name="JE" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Keshman|first=E. A.|date=2008|title=To the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson (1908–1989)|url=http://link.springer.com/10.1134/S1022795408100013|journal=Russian Journal of Genetics|language=en|volume=44|issue=10|pages=1127–1133|doi=10.1134/S1022795408100013|s2cid=20077539 |issn=1022-7954}}</ref> |
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During [[World War II]] Efroimson |
During [[World War II]] Efroimson worked on the warfront as an epidemiologist, paramedic, and a German-speaking intelligence member from August 1942 through November 1945 and was awarded military decorations.<ref name="peoples" /><ref name=":0">{{cite book|author=Howell, Yvonne|url=https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1046&context=mlc-faculty-publications|title=The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet and Eurasian History. Vol. 9.|publisher=Academic International Press|year=2008|editor=Adams, Bruce F.|chapter=Efroimson, Vladimir Pavlovich}}</ref> In February 1945 he reported to the Military Council of his Army about unacceptable excesses against German civilians including the [[Soviet war crimes#1945|mass rape of German women]].<ref name="JE" /> |
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In 1946-1948 he worked as a [[docent]] for [[Kharkov University]] and obtained his [[Doktor nauk]] degree (1947). In August 1948, after the infamous [[VASKhNIL]] session there [[Lysenkoism|Lysenkoists]] destroyed scientific genetics Efroimson was stripped |
In 1946-1948 he worked as a [[docent]] for [[Kharkov University]] and obtained his [[Doktor nauk]] degree (1947). In August 1948, after the infamous [[VASKhNIL]] session there [[Lysenkoism|Lysenkoists]] destroyed scientific genetics Efroimson was stripped of his doctoral degree and expelled from his teaching position for translating into Russian, a negative review of [[Trofim Lysenko]]'s work published by [[Theodosius Dobzhansky]]. Efroimson also wrote a report ''On the Criminal Activities by Trofim Lysenko''.<ref name="JE" /> In 1949 Efroimson was sentenced for his ''Libel against the [[Red Army]]'' to seven years in [[Gulag]] (served in ''[[Steplag]]''). The formal reason for his arrest was his February 1945 report about the violence against German civilians although the real reason was probably his criticism of Lysenko.<ref name="peoples" /> In 1956, after being freed from the camps he wrote reports to the [[Prosecutor General of the USSR]] ''On undermining of the [[agriculture in the Soviet Union]] and the international authority of Soviet science'' and ''On the losses caused by pseudo-innovations in agricultural biology''. In 1956-1961 he worked as a librarian in the ''Library of Foreign Literature'', Moscow (1961); since 1961 he worked for [[Mechnikov Institute of Vaccines and Serums]]. In 1962 his doctoral degree was returned to him.<ref name="JE" /> In 1965 he received prestigious Mendel medal.<ref name="Novaya">[http://science.ng.ru/safe/2001-03-21/7_genetics.html ГЕНЕТИК, СТАВШИЙ БИОСОЦИОЛОГОМ Жизнь и труды неистового ученого и правдолюба Владимира Эфроимсона] by Yevgeny Ramensky [[Novaya gazeta]] 20 June 2001 {{in lang|ru}}</ref> In 1968 Efroimson became the head of the genetics department of Moscow Institute for Psychiatry. In 1976-1989 he was a consultant for the ''Institute of Development Biology'' of the [[USSR Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="JE" /> |
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The main works of Efroimson were devoted to the broader area of genetics including: the effects of [[ionizing radiation]], mechanism of [[carcinogenesis]] and [[radiation sickness]], mechanism of [[Immunity (medical)|immunity]], [[neuropsychiatric]] genetics, genetics of human pathologies, etc. He wrote the first Russian monograph on genetics, ''The Introduction to Medical Genetics'' (1964)--the book that triggered the revival of human genetics in the Soviet Union. He was the author of three monographs and over 100 scientific papers and the editor of many books on different issues of genetics. The last years he worked on the [[genetics of social behavior]]. With onset of [[perestroyka]] his results in this areas were posthumously published in three books: ''Genetics of Geniality'', ''Pedagogical Genetics'' (1998) and ''Genetics of Ethics and Aesthetic'' (1995). He is the author of many philosophical works including his ''Origin of Altruism'' ([[Novy Mir]], 1971).<ref name=JE/> Efroimson entered the annals of Russian science as an |
The main works of Efroimson were devoted to the broader area of genetics including: the effects of [[ionizing radiation]], mechanism of [[carcinogenesis]] and [[radiation sickness]], mechanism of [[Immunity (medical)|immunity]], [[neuropsychiatric]] genetics, genetics of human pathologies, etc. He wrote the first Russian monograph on genetics, ''The Introduction to Medical Genetics'' (1964)--the book that triggered the revival of human genetics in the Soviet Union. He was the author of three monographs and over 100 scientific papers and the editor of many books on different issues of genetics. The last years he worked on the [[genetics of social behavior]]. With onset of [[perestroyka]] his results in this areas were posthumously published in three books: ''Genetics of Geniality'', ''Pedagogical Genetics'' (1998) and ''Genetics of Ethics and Aesthetic'' (1995). He is the author of many philosophical works including his ''Origin of Altruism'' ([[Novy Mir]], 1971).<ref name="JE" /> Efroimson entered the annals of Russian science as an outstanding researcher, but also as an unblinking fighter for the truth, an uncompromising opponent of anti-scientific directions in biology, an ardent advocate of genetics and the moral standard of a true scientist. |
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Efoimson married Maria Grigorievna Tsubina (1906-1976) in 1938 and became a step-father to her daughter. He had no children of his own.<ref name=":0" /> |
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⚫ | Vladimir Efroimson is a prototype of Ilya Goldberg, one of the protagonists in the [[Lyudmila Ulitskaya]]'s novel ''Kukotsky's Case'' ([[Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize]], 2001)<ref>[http://magazines.russ.ru/nj/2004/235/erm8.html Живая нить] by Yevgeny Yermolin [[Novy Mir]] N235, 2004 {{ |
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⚫ | Vladimir Efroimson is a prototype of Ilya Goldberg, one of the protagonists in the [[Lyudmila Ulitskaya]]'s novel ''[[Kukotsky's Case]]'' ([[Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize]], 2001)<ref>[http://magazines.russ.ru/nj/2004/235/erm8.html Живая нить] by Yevgeny Yermolin [[Novy Mir]] N235, 2004 {{in lang|ru}}</ref> |
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Russian-American poet [[Vladimir Efroimson (poet)]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=Efroimson|first=Vladimir|title=Решения|journal=Интерпоэзия|year=2008|issue=1|url=http://magazines.russ.ru/interpoezia/2008/1/ef7.html}}</ref> is his nephew. |
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| NAME = Efroimson, Vladimir |
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| DATE OF BIRTH = November 21, 1908 |
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| PLACE OF BIRTH = [[Moscow]] |
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| DATE OF DEATH = July 21, 1989 |
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| PLACE OF DEATH = Moscow |
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Latest revision as of 15:19, 21 October 2024
Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson Владимир Павлович Эфроимсон | |
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Born | 21 November 1908 |
Died | 21 July 1989 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | (aged 80)
Citizenship | Soviet Union |
Alma mater | Moscow State University |
Known for | Mutation rate, Medical genetics, Genetics of social behavior |
Scientific career | |
Fields | genetics |
Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson (Russian: Владимир Павлович Эфроимсон; 21 November 1908, Moscow – 21 July 1989, Moscow) was one of the most prominent Soviet geneticists, a former student of Nikolai Koltsov, who was among the scientists who had to struggle against the persecution of geneticists in the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union.[1][2] He studied mutations and human genetics and was among the first to estimate the rate of spontaneous mutations in human genes in 1932 although this was published first by J.B.S. Haldane.
Life and work
[edit]Efroimson was born at the Lubyanka All-Russia Insurance Company revenue house in Moscow (which was turned into the headquarters of the Soviet secret police after the October Revolution), the son of a banker and a nurse. He studied in an elite bilingual German school and entered the Biology division of Math and Physics Faculty of Moscow State University in 1925, where he studied under Nikolai Koltsov. In 1929 he was expelled from the university for his speech against the persecution of his teacher Sergei Chetverikov, the founder of population genetics. In 1929-1931 Efroimson worked in the Trans-Caucasian Institute for Silk Worm Growing in Tbilisi. In 1929-1931 he worked in Moscow Radiation Institute. In 1932 he published six scientific works and discovered the formula of mutation rate in humans. In December 1932 he was arrested for his participation in the "Free Philosophic Society". In 1935 he was freed from labour camps in the Altai region. He started to work for the Central Asian Institute for Silk Worm Growing. In one and a half years he made important discoveries in the silkworm genetics. In 1937 he was expelled from the institute under pretext of inefficiency at work, and the pure-bred lines of silkworms he had bred were killed and copies his book Genetics of Silkworm published by the USSR Academy of Sciences were destroyed. In 1939-1941 he worked for the All-Ukrainian Silkworm Station in Merefa and obtained his Kandidat degree from Kharkov University (1941).[1][3]
During World War II Efroimson worked on the warfront as an epidemiologist, paramedic, and a German-speaking intelligence member from August 1942 through November 1945 and was awarded military decorations.[2][4] In February 1945 he reported to the Military Council of his Army about unacceptable excesses against German civilians including the mass rape of German women.[1]
In 1946-1948 he worked as a docent for Kharkov University and obtained his Doktor nauk degree (1947). In August 1948, after the infamous VASKhNIL session there Lysenkoists destroyed scientific genetics Efroimson was stripped of his doctoral degree and expelled from his teaching position for translating into Russian, a negative review of Trofim Lysenko's work published by Theodosius Dobzhansky. Efroimson also wrote a report On the Criminal Activities by Trofim Lysenko.[1] In 1949 Efroimson was sentenced for his Libel against the Red Army to seven years in Gulag (served in Steplag). The formal reason for his arrest was his February 1945 report about the violence against German civilians although the real reason was probably his criticism of Lysenko.[2] In 1956, after being freed from the camps he wrote reports to the Prosecutor General of the USSR On undermining of the agriculture in the Soviet Union and the international authority of Soviet science and On the losses caused by pseudo-innovations in agricultural biology. In 1956-1961 he worked as a librarian in the Library of Foreign Literature, Moscow (1961); since 1961 he worked for Mechnikov Institute of Vaccines and Serums. In 1962 his doctoral degree was returned to him.[1] In 1965 he received prestigious Mendel medal.[5] In 1968 Efroimson became the head of the genetics department of Moscow Institute for Psychiatry. In 1976-1989 he was a consultant for the Institute of Development Biology of the USSR Academy of Sciences.[1]
The main works of Efroimson were devoted to the broader area of genetics including: the effects of ionizing radiation, mechanism of carcinogenesis and radiation sickness, mechanism of immunity, neuropsychiatric genetics, genetics of human pathologies, etc. He wrote the first Russian monograph on genetics, The Introduction to Medical Genetics (1964)--the book that triggered the revival of human genetics in the Soviet Union. He was the author of three monographs and over 100 scientific papers and the editor of many books on different issues of genetics. The last years he worked on the genetics of social behavior. With onset of perestroyka his results in this areas were posthumously published in three books: Genetics of Geniality, Pedagogical Genetics (1998) and Genetics of Ethics and Aesthetic (1995). He is the author of many philosophical works including his Origin of Altruism (Novy Mir, 1971).[1] Efroimson entered the annals of Russian science as an outstanding researcher, but also as an unblinking fighter for the truth, an uncompromising opponent of anti-scientific directions in biology, an ardent advocate of genetics and the moral standard of a true scientist.
Efoimson married Maria Grigorievna Tsubina (1906-1976) in 1938 and became a step-father to her daughter. He had no children of his own.[4]
Vladimir Efroimson is a prototype of Ilya Goldberg, one of the protagonists in the Lyudmila Ulitskaya's novel Kukotsky's Case (Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize, 2001)[6]
Russian-American poet Vladimir Efroimson (poet)[7] is his nephew.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g Эфроимсон Владимир Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia (in Russian)
- ^ a b c Владимир Павлович Эфроимсон biography on peoples.ru (in Russian)
- ^ Keshman, E. A. (2008). "To the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson (1908–1989)". Russian Journal of Genetics. 44 (10): 1127–1133. doi:10.1134/S1022795408100013. ISSN 1022-7954. S2CID 20077539.
- ^ a b Howell, Yvonne (2008). "Efroimson, Vladimir Pavlovich". In Adams, Bruce F. (ed.). The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet and Eurasian History. Vol. 9. Academic International Press.
- ^ ГЕНЕТИК, СТАВШИЙ БИОСОЦИОЛОГОМ Жизнь и труды неистового ученого и правдолюба Владимира Эфроимсона by Yevgeny Ramensky Novaya gazeta 20 June 2001 (in Russian)
- ^ Живая нить by Yevgeny Yermolin Novy Mir N235, 2004 (in Russian)
- ^ Efroimson, Vladimir (2008). "Решения". Интерпоэзия (1).