Theodosius Dobzhansky

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academic author evolutionary biologist geneticist human

Theodosius Dobzhansky was a pioneering 20th-century geneticist and evolutionary biologist whose work integrating genetics with natural selection helped lay the foundations of the modern evolutionary synthesis.

Aliases (2)

Dobzhansky ×1
Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky ×1

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic → author → evolutionary biologist → geneticist → human →
awardReceived	Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal → National Medal of Science →
birthDate	1900-01-25 →
birthPlace	Nemyriv, Russian Empire → Nemyriv, Ukraine →
countryOfCitizenship	Russian Empire → United States of America →
deathDate	1975-12-18 →
doctoralAdvisor	Yuri Filipchenko →
educatedAt	Kiev University →
employer	California Institute of Technology → Columbia University → Rockefeller University →
ethnicGroup	Ukrainian →
familyName	Dobzhansky →
fieldOfWork	evolutionary biology → genetics → modern evolutionary synthesis → population genetics →
fullName	Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky →
givenName	Theodosius →
influenced	Ernst Mayr → Motoo Kimura → Richard Lewontin →
influencedBy	Charles Darwin → Gregor Mendel → Sewall Wright →
knownFor	aphorism "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution" → concept of balanced genetic polymorphism → emphasis on genetic diversity within populations → experimental work on Drosophila populations → foundational contributions to the modern evolutionary synthesis → integrating Mendelian genetics with Darwinian natural selection →
languageOfWorkOrName	English → Russian → Ukrainian →
mannerOfDeath	natural causes →
memberOf	National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America →
nativeName	Феодосій Григорович Добжанський →
notableWork	Genetics and the Origin of Species → Genetics of Natural Populations series → Genetics of the Evolutionary Process →
placeOfDeath	Davis, California →
publicationDate	1937 →
religion	Eastern Orthodoxy →
workLocation	New York City → Pasadena, California →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
G. Ledyard Stebbins → modern evolutionary synthesis →	influencedBy
Genetics and the Origin of Species →	author
Theodosius Dobzhansky ("Dobzhansky") →	familyName
Theodosius Dobzhansky ("Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky") →	fullName
Sewall Wright →	influenced
Darwin–Wallace Medal →	notableRecipient
Genetics and the Origin of Species →	relatedTo