Sixty years ago, on October 7, 1963, the Soviet scientist, world-famous theorist of evolutionary doctrine of the 20th century, Ivan Ivanovich Shmalhausen, the second director of our Institute (at that time - the A. N. Severtsov Institute of Evolutionary Morphology (IEM)), replacing Academician A.N. Severtsov, passed away. The obituary was published in 1964 in the Journal of Zoology.
In April next year we will celebrate the 140th anniversary of the birth of Academician I.I. Schmalhausen. By this date, the Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences is planning an exhibition dedicated to his life and contribution to science, and will also post publications dedicated to this outstanding researcher on the Institute’s website.