Nikolai Vavilov
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov was a Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist who identified the centers of origin of cultivated plants. He devoted his life to the study and improvement of wheat, maize and other cereal crops that sustain the global population.
25 November 1887
Born on the same birth day (25 November): Albertus Soegijapranata • Armando Villanueva • Bob Lind • Cris Carter • Debaki Bose • Erick Sermon • Fernance B. Perry • Gail Collins • Gerald Seymour • Henry Ware Eliot • Isaac Rosenberg • Karl Offmann • Lars Eighner • Mark Frost • Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck • Peter Siddle • Talen Horton-Tucker • Toni Ortelli
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