Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev / G. Platonov
Material type: TextSeries: Publication details: Moscow : Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1955.Description: 190 pages : black and white photographs, illustrations ; 21 cmOther title:- Men of Russian science : Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev [Other title]
- QH 31 .T5 P613 1955
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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BOOKS | Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks | QH 31 .T5 P613 1955 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | NPML21020009 |
Includes "Index of main dates in Timiryazev's life and work".
Life, socio-political and pedagogical work : Childhood and youth. First steps in the field of science -- In the Petrovsky Academy -- Timiryazev in the Moscow University -- Timiryazev's transition to the side of the proletariat -- An ardent patriot of the socialist homeland --
Timiryazev's scientific activity and his work in popularizing science : The importance of Timiryazev's works on vegetable physiology and agriculture -- Timiryazev's championship and development of the Darwinian theory -- Timiryazev's works on natural-science history -- A splendid popularizer of science -- A militant materialist and dialectician.
"This biography [is] of the early 20th century Russian, Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev (1843-1920), agricultural scientist who was "a militant materialist". Timiryazev had his epoch work The Historical Method of Biology published after his death. When he died in 1920, he was given a lavish state funeral and [Mikhail Ivanovich] Kalinin gave the funeral oration." -- From Amazon.
Translated from the Russian.
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