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Nature Genetics 40, 930 (1 August 2008) | doi:10.1038/ng0808-930

Famed biologist lost to Stalin's terror

Vadim Birstein

Peter Pringle's new biography of Nikolai Vavilov is a welcome addition to the primary English sources on this outstanding Soviet botanist and geneticist |[mdash]|Zhores Medvedev's The Rise and Fall of T.