What was Theodosius Dobzhansky’s middle name?
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Theodosius Dobzhansky was a Russian-American geneticist who is considered one of the fathers of population genetics. His middle name was Grigorievich, which is a Russian patronymic derived from his father's first name, Grigory. Dobzhansky was born in the Russian Empire in 1900 and immigrated to the United States in 1927. He was a professor at Columbia University and the University of California, Davis. He died in 1975.
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