Georgii Adamovich Nadson (,

Kiev Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

– April 15, 1939) was a Soviet biologist, "one of the pioneers of

radioecology Radioecology is the branch of ecology concerning the presence of radioactivity in Earth’s ecosystems. Investigations in radioecology include field sampling, experimental field and laboratory procedures, and the development of environmentally pr ...

in Russia"D. I. Nikitin
Soil Microbiology at the Institute of Microbiology.
Russian Academy of Sciences He became professor at St. Petersburg University in 1900. In 1930, he founded the Laboratory of Microbiology of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

(which in 1934 was transferred from

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

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" On April 14, 1930, 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 The Kommunarka firing range (russian: Расстрельный полигон «Коммунарка»), former dacha of secret police chief Genrikh Yagoda, was used as a burial ground from 1937 to 1941. Executions may have been carried out th ...

. The real reason for his execution was his opposition to

Lysenkoism Lysenkoism (russian: Лысенковщина, Lysenkovshchina, ; uk, лисенківщина, lysenkivščyna, ) was a political campaign led by Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko against genetics and science-based agriculture in the mid-20th cen ...

. '' Ulvella nadsonii'', a species of

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, is named for him.

References

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

External links

Georgii Adamovich Nadson
at www.cybertruffle.org.uk {{DEFAULTSORT:Nadson, Georgii Adamovich 1867 births 1939 deaths Scientists from Kyiv People from Kievsky Uyezd 19th-century botanists from the Russian Empire Soviet botanists Soviet geneticists Soviet microbiologists Saint Petersburg State University alumni Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Great Purge victims from Ukraine Soviet rehabilitations