Sergei Navashin
Sergei Gavrilovich Navashin ; was a Russian biologist. He discovered double fertilization in plants in 1898.Biography
1874 — enters the Medical Surgical Academy in St. Petersburg, works on chemistry in the laboratory of A. Borodin
1878 — moves to the Moscow University, obtains Candidate degree in 1881 in Biology. Under the influence of K. Timiryazev and V. Zinger starts to study Botany. Receives a position of a laboratory assistant at the chair of Plant Physiology and later in the Petrovskaya Agricultural Academy.
1894 — is invited to work at the chair of Systematics and Morphology of the Kiev University.
During 1894-1914 works as a director of the Botanical Garden of Kiev University
1896 — defends his doctoral thesis in the University of Odessa
1918-1923—professor of Tbilisi University
1923—founds the Timiryazev Biological Institute in Moscow. Heads it till 1929.
