Boris L'vovich Astaurov (1904-1974)

摘要

Boris L. Astaurov, whose 100th birthday we celebrated in 2004, was an outstanding Russian scientist, naturalist in the classical meaning of this word, and scientific-public man. He made a sizable contribution to the development of genetics, phenogenetics, cytogenet-ics, experimental embryology, and evolutionary theory, as well as practical sericulture, He was the founder of the Kol'tsov Institute of Developmental Biology and its first director, as well as the founder of the journal "Ontogenez" (Russian Journal of Developmental Biology) and its first editor-in-chief.