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Zhores Medvedev

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Aleksandrovich and the family name is Medvedev.
Zhores Medvedev
Жорес Медведев
Born
Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev

(1925-11-14)14 November 1925
Tbilisi, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR
Died15 November 2018(2018-11-15) (aged 93)
London, England, UK
NationalityRussian
Alma materRussian State Agricultural University
Known forHuman rights activism and participation in dissident movement in the Soviet Union
Scientific career
FieldsAgronomy, biology, gerontology

Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev (Russian: Жоре́с Алекса́ндрович Медве́дев; 14 November 1925 – 15 November 2018) was a Russian agronomist, biologist, historian and dissident. His twin brother is the historian Roy Medvedev.