Yuri Filipchenko
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Yuri Filipchenko
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| Born | February 13th, 1882 Zlyn’, Bolkhovsky District, Oriovskii Province, Russia |
| Died | May 19, 1930 (aged 48) or May 20, 1930 (aged 48) Leningrad, USSR |
| Citizenship | Russian |
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| Institutions | Saint Petersburg State University |
| Doctoral students | Theodosius Dobzhansky |
Yuri Filipchenko (Russian: Юрий Филипченко; sometimes spelled Philipchenko) (1882 — 1930) was a Russian entomologist who coined the terms microevolution and macroevolution, as well as the mentor of geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky. Though he himself was an orthogenetic, he was one of the first scientists to incorporate the laws of Mendel into evolutionary theory and thus had a great influence on The Modern Synthesis.
He established a genetics laboratory in Leningrad undertaking experimental work with Drosophila melanogaster. Theodosius Dobzhansky worked with him from 1924.
Yuri Filipchenko was born on February 13th, 1882 in Zlyn' in Bolkhovsky District of the Russian Empire. His father was Aleksandrovich Efimovich, a landowner and agriculturalist. Filipchenko also had a brother by the name of Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, who would later become a parasitologist and physician.
He received his secondary education at the Second St. Petersburg Classical Gymnasium. In 1897, Filipchenko read Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and Sexual Selection for the first time. Two years later, he would read Carl Nägeli’s Mechanisch-physiologische Theorie der Abstamungslehre. These two works would later have a powerful formative influence on Filipchenko and helped to steer him towards a career in zoology.
Filipchenko graduated from Second St. Petersburg in 1900, but due to a variety of financial difficulties that were further complicated by his father's death, he entered the Military Medical Academy. However, Filipchenko soon transferred to the natural science division at St. Petersburg State University only a year after entering the academy.
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