Yuri Filipchenko
Russian entomologist
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| Intro | Russian entomologist | |
| A.K.A. | Filipch. | |
| A.K.A. | Filipch. | |
| Places | Netherlands Russia | |
| was | Zoologist Scientist Botanist Entomologist | |
| Work field | Biology Science | |
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| Birth | 13 February 1882 | |
| Death | 20 May 1930Saint Petersburg (aged 48 years) |
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Yuri Filipchenko (Russian: Юрий Филипченко; sometimes spelled Philipchenko) (1882 — 1930) was a Russian entomologist and coiner of the terms microevolution and macroevolution. Mentor of Theodosius Dobzhansky. Though he himself was an orthogenetic he was one of the first scientists to incorporate the laws of Mendel into evolutionary theory and thus had great influence on The Modern Synthesis.
He established a genetics laboratory in Leningrad undertaking experimental work with Drosophila melanogaster. Theodosius Dobzhansky worked with him from 1924.