Vladimir Vladimirovich Sakharov (28 February 1902 – 9 January 1969) was a Soviet cytogeneticist who studied mutagenesis by radiation with applications to agricultural and human genetics. He was a professor at the K. A. Timiriazev Agricultural Academy. Sakharov was born

Simbirsk Ulyanovsk, known until 1924 as Simbirsk, is a city and the administrative center of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River east of Moscow. Population: The city, founded as Simbirsk (), was the birthplace of Vladimir Lenin (born ...

to agronomist Vladimir and teacher Maria Antonovna Ponyatovskaya, daughter of a Moscow physician. The family moved to Moscow in 1919 and Sakharov went to the Moscow State University in 1920 and graduated in 1926 after working at the Institute of Experimental Biology with a dissertation on “Novaya mutatsia u drozofily” (“New Mutation in Drosophila”) and “Razbor muzykalnykh genealogy” (“Analysis of Musical Genealogies”). He then taught at a Moscow school before joining the IEB in 1927 to research under

Nikolai Koltsov Nikolai Konstantinovich Koltsov (russian: Николай Константинович Кольцов; July 14, 1872 – December 2, 1940) was a Russian biologist and a pioneer of modern genetics. Among his students were Nikolay Timofeeff-Ressovs ...

. He then moved to work at the Moscow Pharmaceutical Institute and then directed the Institute of General Genetics. He became a professor at the K. A. Timiriazev Moscow Agricultural Academy in 1965, working there until his death. Sakharov worked on the heredity of

goitre A goitre, or goiter, is a swelling in the neck resulting from an enlarged thyroid gland. A goitre can be associated with a thyroid that is not functioning properly. Worldwide, over 90% of goitre cases are caused by iodine deficiency. The term is ...

among people in Uzbekistan, examined chemical

mutagenesis Mutagenesis () is a process by which the genetic information of an organism is changed by the production of a mutation. It may occur spontaneously in nature, or as a result of exposure to mutagens. It can also be achieved experimentally using lab ...

and created polyploid plants including varieties of buckwheat using

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