Zubr
13 hrs. 8 min.
Description
The incredible story of the life of an outstanding genetics scientist who miraculously survived the Gulag.
Nikolay Timofeev-Resovsky… A bison. One of the founding fathers of modern genetics. An incredible person whose fate was swept over by the “age of the wolf-driver.” Surviving—miraculously—in fascist Germany and the Gulag, he didn’t simply stay alive: he laid the foundations for radiation biology and genetics. UNESCO included his name among outstanding scientists, and in 1950 Western colleagues nominated him for the Nobel Prize. Soviet authorities didn’t answer whether such a scientist was still alive—so Timofeev-Resovsky wasn’t informed, and he didn’t receive the award… “He was a living, tangible link in that chain of times, seemingly broken forever—yet found again, still alive.”
Nikolay Timofeev-Resovsky… A bison. One of the founding fathers of modern genetics. An incredible person whose fate was swept over by the “age of the wolf-driver.” Surviving—miraculously—in fascist Germany and the Gulag, he didn’t simply stay alive: he laid the foundations for radiation biology and genetics. UNESCO included his name among outstanding scientists, and in 1950 Western colleagues nominated him for the Nobel Prize. Soviet authorities didn’t answer whether such a scientist was still alive—so Timofeev-Resovsky wasn’t informed, and he didn’t receive the award… “He was a living, tangible link in that chain of times, seemingly broken forever—yet found again, still alive.”
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