Medvedev, Zhores (Alexandrovich)

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MEDVEDEV, Zhores (Alexandrovich)

MEDVEDEV, Zhores (Alexandrovich). Russian/British (born U.S.S.R.), b. 1925. Genres: Biology, History, Politics/Government, Sociology. Career: Sr. Research Fellow, MRC National Institute for Medical Research Division of Genetics, London, 1973-92. Associate Ed., Experimental Gerontology. Member of Editorial Board, Mechanism of Ageing and Development, Ireland. Sr. Research Scientists, K. Timiriasev Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Moscow, 1951-62; Head of Laboratory of Molecular Radiobiology, Research Institute of Medical Radiology, Obninsk, Kaluga region, USSR, 1963-69; Sr. Research Scientist, Laboratory of Proteins, Research Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Farm Animals, Borovsk, Kaluga region, USSR, 1970-72. Publications: Protein Biosynthesis, 1966; The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko, 1969; Molecular-Genetic Mechanisms of Development, 1970; (with R.A. Medvedev) Questions of Madness, 1971; Medvedev Papers, 1971; Ten Years after Ivan Denisovich; (with R.A. Medvedev) Khrushchev: The Years in Power, 1976; Soviet Science, 1978; Nuclear Disaster in the Urals, 1979; Andropov, 1983; Gorbachev, 1986; Soviet Agriculture, 1987; Legacy of Chernobyl, 1990; (with R.A. Medvedev) The Unknown Stalin, 2001. Address: 4 Osborn Gardens, Mill Hill, London NW7 1DY, England.

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