When Alexander Eig met Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov – an influential meeting for Israeli botany: Supplementary material
Suembikya Frumin
Mitia Frumin
Ehud Weiss
10.6084/m9.figshare.7228448.v1
https://brill.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/When_Alexander_Eig_met_Nikolai_Ivanovich_Vavilov_an_influential_meeting_for_Israeli_botany_Supplementary_material/7228448
<p>Dr.
Alexander Eig is a figure of major importance in the history of botany in
Israel. This paper attempts to evaluate, for the first time, personal contacts
that influenced his academic development. Archival research reveals that his
meeting with one of the greatest plant researchers of the 20<sup>th</sup>
century, N.I. Vavilov, in 1926 had a great impact upon him. It was Vavilov who
stimulated the young Alexander Eig to undertake his first taxonomic work and
write his first monograph. This article reproduces and discusses a newly
discovered letter, written by Vavilov to Yitzhak Volcani, the head of the Institute
of Agriculture and Natural History in Israel, under whose leadership Eig began
his academic work. This document points to the existence of a mutual
understanding and cooperation between Vavilov and Volcani. Furthermore,
Vavilov`s letter explains why Eig`s academic work, and that of generations of
Israeli botanists who followed in his footsteps, chartered the path it took.</p>
2018-11-19 07:46:56
Eig, A.
Vavilov, N.I.
Volcani, Y.
natural history
Israel
Russia
plant sciences
botany
Plant Biology not elsewhere classified