Protistology • 15 (1), 41–45 (2021) |
Konstantin Sergeyevitch Merezhkovsky (1855–1921) – the protistologist who discovered the origin of eukaryotic cells |
Sergei I. Fokin
Department of Biology, Zoology-Anthropology Unit, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy
| Submitted February 7, 2021 | Accepted February 24, 2021 | Summary This article presents a life story of Prof. K.S. Merezhkovsky and his contribution to Protistology and evolution theory. Despite the conventional point of view, he cannot be treated as a pure botanist, but rather as protistologist, zoologist, and even a successful anthropologist and science fiction writer.
Key words: life story, K.S. Merezhkovsky, protists, theory of symbiogenesis
Address for correspondence: Sergei I. Fokin. Department of Biology, Protistology-Zoology Unit, University of Pisa, 56126, Pisa, Italy; St. Petersburg Branch of the S.I. Vavilov Institute of History of Science and Technology Russian Academy of Sciences, and St. Petersburg State University, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia;; e-mail: sifokin@mail.ru |
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