PROFESSOR Lev Tumerman, who played a leading role in the fight against Lysenkoism, emigrated from the Soviet Union to Israel in 1972. Since then, he has been prominent in the press discussion of the Kyshtym nuclear "disaster" of the 1950s. Vera Rich talked to him recently at the Weizmann Institute, where he now teaches.
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Rich, V. How molecular biology won its place in the USSR. Nature 276, 662 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/276662a0
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