Nikolai Konstantinovich Koltsov (Russian: Николай Константинович Кольцов; July 14, 1872– December 2, 1940) was a Russian biologist. He was one of the creators of modern genetics. Nikolai Koltsov was a teacher of Nikolay Timofeeff-Ressovsky.
He graduated from Moscow University in 1894 and was a professor there (1985-1911). He established and directed the Institute of Experimental Biology in the middle of 1917, just before the October revolution. H...
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Nikolai Konstantinovich Koltsov (Russian: Николай Константинович Кольцов; July 14, 1872– December 2, 1940) was a Russian biologist. He was one of the creators of modern genetics. Nikolai Koltsov was a teacher of Nikolay Timofeeff-Ressovsky.
He graduated from Moscow University in 1894 and was a professor there (1985-1911). He established and directed the Institute of Experimental Biology in the middle of 1917, just before the October revolution. He was a member of the Agricultural Academy (VASKhNIL).
Nikolai Koltsov worked on cytology and vertebrate anatomy. In 1903 Koltsov proposed that the shape of cells was determined by a network of tubules which he termed the cytoskeleton. In 1927 Kolstov proposed that inherited traits would be inherited via a "giant hereditary molecule" which would be made up of "two mirror strands that would replicate in a semi-conservative fashion using each strand as a template". These ideas were confirmed to have been accurate in 1953 when James Watson and...
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