How a Biologist Became an Artist

Leonid I. Korochkin

This year is the 70th anniversary of the well-known Russian biologist, geneticist and embryologist Leonid I. Korochkin. L. I. Korochkin is a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Professor of Moscow State University, Head of the laboratory of genetics and neurogenetics of the Institute of Gene Biology, RAS, and Head of the laboratory of molecular biology of the Koltsov Institute of Evolution Biology, RAS, Moscow. Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, 1996, and the Koltsov Prize of RAS, 1994.

Korochkin's scientific achievements made in the forty years of his career are impressive. In particular, he is an authority on stem cell research — an outstanding discovery of the modern age on which we are going to dwell in the future issues of our journal.

Korochkin, however, is more than an eminent scientist, talented teacher and charming personality. He also is the author of a series of publications on biology, history of Russian philosophy, and modern painting. Moreover, he is an avant-guard artist who took part in a number of exhibitions including the well-known modernist exhibitions at Malaya Gruzinskaya. What our journal presents here is only a tiny collection of amazing pieces of art created by this man of versatile talents...

More information on these and other subjects you can find in the printed version of our journal.