Theodosius Dobzhansky Facts
Theodosius Dobzhansky Facts
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| Dobzhansky was born in Nemyriv, Ukraine where his father was a mathematics teacher. |
| In 1910 the family moved to Kiev. |
| While in high school Dobzhansky became interest in entomology and began collecting butterflies. |
| From 1917 to 1924 he studied biology at the Kiev State University. |
| He moved to St Petersburg, Russia to study the Drosophila melanogaster under Yuri Filipchenko. |
| In 1927 he immigrated to the US on an International Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation scholarship. |
| By 1927 Dobzhansky had published 35 scientific papers on entomology and genetics. |
| At Columbia University he continued his genetics experiments using Drosophila melanogaster. |
| In 1930 he moved with his colleague, Thomas Hunt Morgan, to Caltech. |
| In 1937 he published Genetics and the Origin of Species which is one of the major works linking evolutionary biology and genetics. |
| He created a new definition of evolution as "a change in the frequency of an allele with a gene pool." |
| That same year he became a citizen of the United States. |
| In 1941 the National Academy of Sciences awarded him its Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal. |
| He left Caltech in 1940 and returned to Columbia University. |
| From 1962 to 1971 he worked at Rockefeller University. |
| In 1964 he received the National Medal of Science. |
| In 1972 he became the first president of the Behavior Genetics Association which he had helped establish. |
| In 1971, after being diagnosed with lymphocytic leukemia, he retired from Rockefeller University and moved to the University of California, Davis. |
| He published his famous essay, "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution." |
| He was a prolific writer and his works include Heredity, Race and Society (1946), Mankind Evolving (1962), The Biology of Ultimate Concern (1967), and Genetic Diversity and Human Equality (1973). |
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