History of Scientific Contacts between Russian and French Plant Physiologists in the Late ХIХ Century - 1970s

Cover Page

Cite item

Full text / tables, figures

Abstract

The author has investigated the history of scientific relations and cooperation between Russian and Soviet scientists in the field of plant physiology with their French colleagues in the period from the end of the XIX century to the 1970s. The authors consider the changes that took place in the relations between scientific communities after the Great Russian Revolution of 1917, between the two world wars, and the beginning of the Cold War. The specific areas of cooperation between the scientists, the problems that aroused the greatest interest of plant physiologists of the two countries are reflected upon in the article. Through the article there is an analysis of the development of scientific ties with the help of scientific trips of plant physiologists to France and the USSR, which became, on the one hand, an important part of scientific diplomacy, and on the other hand, a factor that allowed a new impetus to the development of science in the two states.

About the authors

Mariya V. Malunova

S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Science

Author for correspondence.
Email: malunova@ihst.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0003-3556-9475
SPIN-code: 9809-5886

Researcher of the Department of History of Biological and Chemical Sciences

14, Baltiyskaya Str., Moscow, 125315, Russia

References

  1. Aleksandrov, D.A. “Pochemu sovetskiie uchenyye perestali pechatatsia za rubezhom: stanovleniie samodostatochnosti i izolirovannosti otechestvennoy nauki, 1914-1940” [Why Soviet Scientists Stopped Publishing Abroad: The Establishment of Self-Sufficiency and Isolation of Domestic Science, 1914-1940]. Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki, no. 3 (1996): 3-24 (in Russian).
  2. Dominique, S. “Les sciences en guerre froide (1946-1991): France-Union soviétique et pays de l’Est.” Revue des études slaves 4 (2023): 658-660 (in French).
  3. Evstigneev, V.B. Otchet o komandirovke vo Frantsiiu [Report on a business trip to France]. Мoscow: VINIТI Publ., 1968 (in Russian).
  4. Fando, R.A. Sovetsko-frantsuzskiie nauchnyie svyazi (1920-1930-ye gg.) [Soviet-French scientific relations (1920-1930s)]. Мoscow: Janus-K Publ., 2023 (in Russian).
  5. Gemmell, A. “The International Botanical Congress in Paris.” Nature 174 (1954): 717-718.
  6. Genkel, P.A. Sabinin Dmitriy Anatolyevich [Sabinin Dmitry Anatolievich]. Мoscow: Nauka Publ,. 1980 (in Russian).
  7. Gruzdinskaya, V.S. “French science through the eyes of Soviet scientists: the experience of business trips abroad in the 1920-1930s.” Russia and the Contemporary World, no. 3 (2023): 148-162 (in Russian), https://doi.org/10.31249/rsm/2023.03.10
  8. Khablova, E.S. “The visits of Soviet crop breeders to France during the Interbellum.” Studies in the History of Biology. 2023. № 4. С. 193-206 (in Russian), https://doi.org/10.24412/2076-8176-2023-4-193-206
  9. Kovalev, M.V. “Soviet scientists at the VIII International Botanical Congress in France (1954).” Studies in the History of Biology, no. 4 (2023): 122-141 (in Russian), https://doi.org/10.24412/2076-8176-2023-4-122-141
  10. Kursanov, A.L. O Frantsii i Zapadnoi Afrike [About France and West Africa]. Мoscow: Geografgiz Publ., 1956 (in Russian).
  11. Kuznetsov, Vl.V., and Shevyakova, N.I. Boginya flory v Moskve (Proshloie i nastoyashcheie Instituta rastenii im. K.A. Timiryazeva Rossiyskoi akademii nauk) [Goddess of flora in Moscow (Past and present of the K.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plants of the Russian Academy of Sciences)]. Мoscow: GEOS Publ., 2003 (in Russian).
  12. Lyubina, G.I. Rossiia i Frantsiia. Istoriia sotrudnichestva russkikh i frantsuzskikh uchenykh [Russia and France. History of cooperation between Russian and French scientists]. Мoscow: Janus Publ., 1996 (in Russian).
  13. Manoylenko, K.V. Andrey Sergeyevich Famintsyn [Andrey Sergeevich Famintsyn]. St. Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya Publ., 2016 (in Russian).
  14. Prevost, P., and Ollagnier, M. “Primeneniie listovoi diagnostiki” [Application of leaf diagnostics]. Fiziologiia rastenii 3, no. 6 (1956): 554-573 (in Russian).
  15. Pryanishnikov, D.N. Moi vospominaniia [My memories]. Мoscow: Selkhozgiz Publ., 1961 (in Russian).
  16. Pryanishnikov, D.N. Sobraniie state i nauchnykh rabot. Yubileinyi sbornik [Collection of articles and scientific works. Anniversary collection]. Мoscow: Rabotnik prosveshcheniia Publ., 1927 (in Russian).
  17. Satarova, N.A. “Frantsuzskiie uchenyye P. Prevo i M. Vormer o svoiei komandirovke v Moskvu i Leningrad [French scientists P. Prevost and M. Wormer about their business trip to Moscow and Leningrad].” Fiziologiia rastenii 4, no. 1 (1957): 110-111 (in Russian).
  18. Shlyk, A.A. Otchet o komandirovke vo Frantsiiu [Report on a business trip to France]. Мoscow: VINIТI Publ., 1962 (in Russian).
  19. Van-Tieghem, F.E. Obshchaia botanika (morfologiia, anatomiia i fiziologiia rastenii) [General Botany (Morphology, Anatomy and Physiology of Plants)]. Мoscow: N.I. Mamontov Publ., 1895 (in Russian).
  20. Vasilyeva, E.V. “Isolationism of the Soviet Science in 1920-1950: the Center and the Far East.” The Problems of Scientist and Scientific Groups Activity, no. 2 (2016): 108-122 (in Russian).

Copyright (c) 2024 Malunova M.V.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

This website uses cookies

You consent to our cookies if you continue to use our website.

About Cookies