A few words about the teacher, a corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine V.P. Zosimovich (to 120th birthday anniversary)
Abstract
The major life milestones and the main research achievements and scientific-organizational accomplishments of Volodymyr Pavlovych Zosymovych are described. He was the prominent Ukrainian scientist and organizer of science, the developer of genetic principles of plant breeding, in particular the methods for obtaining polyploids, the author of the theory of the origin and evolution of beet who predicted the possibility of the existence of sugar beet mutants with monogerm seeds, who had created a number of polyploid varieties of various crop plants, the organizer and active participant in the revival of classical genetics in Ukraine in the 1960s, one of the founders of the Ukrainian Society of Geneticists and Breeders, the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of the NAS of Ukraine, the journal “Cytology and genetics” and others, Doctors of Biological Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the NAS of Ukraine, Lenin Prize Laureate.
Keywords: V. P. Zosymovych, history of science, polyploidy, evolution of plants, beets.
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