Nikolai Vavilov
1887 – 1943 · Russia · Biology
Built the world's first seed bank; starved to death in Stalin's prison.
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- Fritz Haber
1868 – 1934 · Chemistry
Synthetic nitrogen transformed the yield question Vavilov's genetics addressed.
- George Washington Carver
1864 – 1943 · Biology, Chemistry
Crop diversity as a route to food security is their shared programme.
- Gregor Mendel
1822 – 1884 · Biology
Vavilov's centres of crop diversity are Mendelian genetics applied to world agriculture.
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