Vladimir Efroimson
Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson Владимир Павлович Эфроимсон | |
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Book cover of Genetics of Genius book by Efraimson published posthumously. The black-and-white photo in the bottom is of Efroimson himself | |
| Born | 21 November 1908 |
| Died | 21 July 1989 (aged 80) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Citizenship | Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Known for | Mutation rate, Medical genetics, Genetics of social behavior |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | genetics |
Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson (Russian: Владимир Павлович Эфроимсон; 21 November 1908, Moscow – 21 July 1989, Moscow) was one of the most prominent Soviet geneticists, a former student of Nikolai Koltsov, who was among the scientists who had to struggle against the persecution of geneticists in the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. He studied mutations and human genetics and was among the first to estimate the rate of spontaneous mutations in human genes in 1932 although this was published first by J.B.S. Haldane.