Georgii Adamovich Nadson (June 4 [O.S. May 23] 1867, Kiev – April 15, 1939) was a Soviet biologist, "one of the pioneers of radioecology in Russia"[1] He became professor at St. Petersburg University in 1900.[2] In 1930, he founded the Laboratory of Microbiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (which in 1934 was transferred from Leningrad to Moscow and later transformed into the Institute of Microbiology). He was director of the institute until 1937, when he was "falsely accused of participating in so-called anti-Soviet sabotage and terrorism and arrested"[1] On April 14, 1939, he was found guilty of participation in a terrorist organization, and on the next day he was shot and buried at the Kommunarka shooting ground.[3] The real reason for his execution was his opposition to Lysenkoism.[citation needed]

Ulvella nadsonii, a species of algae, is named for him.


References

  1. ^ a b D. I. Nikitin. Soil Microbiology at the Institute of Microbiology. Russian Academy of Sciences
  2. ^ Barnett, James A. (2004). "A history of research on yeasts 8: taxonomy". Yeast. 21 (14): 1141–1193. doi:10.1002/yea.1154. PMID 15515119. S2CID 34671745.
  3. ^ Курсанова, Татьяна А. (2017). "Судьба учёного в контексте идеологической борьбы в Академии наук в СССР. К 150-летию академика Г. А. Надсона (1867-1939)" [The fate of a scientist in the context of the ideological struggle in the Academy of Sciences in the USSR. To the 150th anniversary of Academician G. A. Nadson (1867-1939)]. Историко-биологические исследования (in Russian). Retrieved 1 Dec 2022.

I. E. Mishustina. History of Marine Microbiology in Russia (the Soviet Union) in the Second Half of the 20th Century. https://doi.org/10.1023%2FA%3A1025863006270

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