| LC control no. | n 79054186 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Medvedev, Zhores A., 1925-2018 |
| Variant(s) | Медведев, Жорес А., 1925-2018 Medvedev, Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev, Zhores, 1925-2018 Medvedev, Zhores Aleksandrovich, 1925-2018 Medvedev, Zh. A. (Zhores Aleksandrovich), 1925-2018 Medvedev, Zh. (Zhores), 1925-2018 Медведев, Жорес, 1925-2018 Медведев, Жорес Александрович, 1925-2018 Медведев, Ж. А. (Жорес Александрович), 1925-2018 Медведев, Ж. (Жорес), 1925-2018 |
| Associated country | Soviet Union Great Britain |
| Located | Leningrad (R.S.F.S.R.) Obninsk (Russia) |
| Birth date | 1925-11-14 |
| Death date | 2018-11-15 |
| Place of birth | Tʻbilisi (Georgia) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Lysenko, Trofim, 1898-1976 Biology Medical radiology |
| Affiliation | National Institute for Medical Research (Great Britain) Akademii︠a︡ medit︠s︡inskikh nauk SSSR |
| Profession or occupation | Biologists Dissenters Expatriate scientists |
| Special note | Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | Aging of the organism at the molecular level, 1962. Andropov, c1983: CIP t.p. (Zhores Medvedev) t.p. verso (copr.: Zhores A. Medvedev) p. ix (former Soviet dissident, now living in London) Nuclear disaster in the Urals, c1979: t.p. (Zhores A. Medvedev) LC manual cat. (hdg.: Medvedev, Zhores Aleksandrovich; variants: Zh. A. Medvedev, Zh. Medvedev, Zhores A. Medvedev) Wikipedia, Jan. 9, 2-14 (Zhores Medvedev; Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev; b. Nov. 14, 1925) New York times WWW site, viewed Nov. 20, 2018 (in obituary published Nov. 16: Zhores A. Medvedev; b. Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev, Nov. 14, 1925, Tbilisi; grew up in Leningrad; d. Thursday [Nov. 15, 2018], London, aged 93; in London since 1973; Soviet biologist, writer, and dissident who was declared insane, confined to a mental institution, and stripped of his citizenship in the 1970s after attacking Lysenkoism, a Stalinist pseudoscience; Soviet authorities in 1969 secured his dismissal as head of the department of molecular biology at the Institute of Medical Radiology at the Academy of Medical Sciences in Obninsk; on May 29, 1970, he was arrested at his home there and taken by doctors to a mental hospital in Kaluga) |
| Associated language | rus rus eng |
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