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Hero or villain? Stasi archives shed light on Russian scientist

Uwe Hossfeld1 & Mark Walker2

  1. Ernst Haeckel House, Friedrich Schiller University, Berggasse 7, 07745 Jena, Germany
  2. Department of History, Union College, Schenectady, New York 12308-3163, USA

Nikolai Timoféeff-Ressovsky (1900–81), one of the most striking personalities in twentieth-century science, did ground-breaking research in the fields of population genetics, radiation biology and evolutionary biology while working in Germany and the Soviet Union (see, for example, D. Paul and C.