Boris Mikhailovich Zavadovsky (Russian: Борис Михайлович Завадовский; 13 January 1895,

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– 31 March 1951,

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) was a Russian Soviet physiologist and who founded the in 1922. He is noted for his pioneering research into the function of the

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. He also studied the effects of

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on the body. He developed a Marxist approach to

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which he described in
Marxist Exhibition Methods for Natural Science Museums
(1931) which he presented at the

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held in

in 1930. He also attended the

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as part of the Soviet delegation contributing
The "Physical" and "Biological" in the Process of Organic Evolution"
to the anthology of their contributions ''

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''. At the time he was one of two non-party members of the delegation, but he joined the

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in 1932. Although Zavadovsky considered himself a Marxist biologist, he was an open critic of

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during the Lysenko affair.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zavadovsky, Boris 1895 births 1951 deaths Russian physiologists