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Medvedev, Zhores Aleksandrovich, 1925-2018 (Russian biologist and historian)

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Dates

  • Existence: 14 November 1925 - 15 November 2018

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Draft chapters 1 and 2 of 'Genetics and Development of Ciliate Protozoa' and other papers, 1950-2001

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Identifier: Coll-1255/11/2
Scope and Contents

Also includes various reprints from C.D. Darlington and others, a photocopy of 'The Cult of Lysenko: 30 appalling years' (Beale's review of Z.A. Medvedev's book The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko) (1969) and email printouts to Beale from John Preer Jr. and Lisa Ranford Cartwright.

Dates: 1950-2001
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Geoffrey Beale, founder of malaria genetics and Royal Society professor / Drafts and typescripts of articles and chapters by Beale and others

Material concerning science in the Soviet Union, 1943-1997

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Identifier: Coll-1255/7/8
Scope and Contents Contains publications, photocopied articles from various authors, news clippings and Beale's own handwritten notes concerning science in the Soviet Union, particularly the figure of Trofim Lysenko. Also contains Beale's notes for a seminar on Lysenko delivered to the Glasgow University Biology Club in November 1948, and a typed proof copy of his review of The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko by Zhores A. Medvedev, titled 'The Cult of T.D. Lysenko - thirty appalling...
Dates: 1943-1997
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Geoffrey Beale, founder of malaria genetics and Royal Society professor / Papers concerning Beale's research

Medvedev, Z.A., 1957-1973

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Identifier: Coll-1586/L/L.250
Scope and Contents

The material consists of correspondence between Zhores Medvedev and Martin Rivers Pollock, dated 1957-1973.

Dates: 1957-1973
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock / SECTION L: CORRESPONDENCE

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