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Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky (Russian: Феодо́сий Григо́рьевич Добржа́нский; Ukrainian: Теодо́сій Григо́рович Добржа́нський; January 25, 1900 – December 18, 1975) was an American geneticist and evolutionary biologist.
Theodosius Dobzhansky (born Jan. 25, 1900, Nemirov, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now in Ukraine]—died Dec. 18, 1975, Davis, Calif., U.S.) was a Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionist whose work had a major influence on 20th-century thought and research on genetics and evolutionary theory.
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Born January 24, 1900 - Died December 18, 1975 Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky was born on January 24, 1900 in Nemyriv, Russia to Sophia Voinarsky and math teacher Grigory Dobzhansky. The Dobzhansky family moved to Kiev, Ukraine when Theodosius was ten years old. As an only child, Theodosius spent much of his high school years collecting butterfl...
In August of 1924, Theodosius Dobzhansky married Natasha Sivertzeva. Theodosius met the fellow geneticist while working in Kiev where she was studying evolutionary morphology. Natasha's studies led Theodosius to take more interest in the Theory of Evolutionand incorporate some of those findings in his own genetics studies. The couple had only one c...
In 1927, Theodosius Dobzhansky accepted a fellowship from the International Educational Board of the Rockefeller Center to work and study in the United States. Dobzhansky moved to New York City to begin work at Columbia University. His work with fruit fliesin Russia was expanded at Columbia where he studied in the "fly room" established by genetici...
Learn about the life and work of Theodosius Dobzhansky, a geneticist who integrated genetics and evolution. He wrote the first book on genetics and evolution and coined the term "evolution".
The answer only began to emerge in the 1930s, thanks in large part to the work of a Soviet-born geneticist named Theodosius Dobzhansky (right). Dobzhansky, who emigrated to the United States in 1928, worked in Thomas Hunt Morgan’s “Fly Room,” where mutations were being studied closely for the first time.
Jun 5, 2012 · Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–75) was one of the principal architects of the so-called synthetic theory of evolution. Born and initially trained in Russia, where he became an entomologist and zoologist with wide-ranging interests, he brought a rich background in systematics and study of natural populations with him when he came to ...
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Jul 22, 1997 · Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975) was a key author of the Synthetic Theory of Evolution, also known as the Modern Synthesis of Evolutionary Theory, which embodies a complex array of biological knowledge centered around Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection couched in genetic terms.
Theodosius Dobzhansky, a Russian geneticist who moved to the United States, provided laboratory evidence for natural selection and variation where previously there had been only field...
