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Events on Tuesday 26 January 1943 1
1887 – 1943Nikolai Vavilov (1887-1943)Died 26 January 1943, aged 55Nikolai Vavilov was a Soviet botanist and geneticist who identified the centres of origin of cultivated plants and built a world-leading seed bank. He opposed Trofim Lysenko's pseudoscience, and in 1940 he was arrested. He died of starvation in Saratov prison.