The Great Physical Auditorium as a scientific information center

Abstract

The Great Physical Auditorium of Saratov University has acquired the status of an important scientific information center over the past century. It has hosted and continues to host scientific conferences, schools, seminars of national and international rank. The report provides data on the important scientific events held at the Auditorium. In the center of the presentation is a historical event of world significance, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2020. This is the report of the brilliant Russian scientist, in those years professor of the Saratov University Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov ""The law of homologous series in variation" , which he presented on June 4, 1920 at the Third All-Russian Congress on Breeding and Seed Production. In terms of predictive significance, this report was immediately compared with D.I.Mendeleev’s periodic law of chemical elements. The law, discovered by N.I. Vavilov in Saratov, defines from the genetic standpoint the fundamental features of the evolution of plants and living organisms and forms the scientific basis for the search and selection of agricultural crops with valuable traits. The validity of the law has been confirmed at the molecular and genetic level.

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Valery M. Anikin
Saratov State University
Russia

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