TRY PRONOUNCING THIS NAME - GABRITSCHEVSKY
Coming home from La Maison Rouge, I had been so impressed by the artist, I kept on muttering his name trying to remember, pronounce it and let it sink into my memory buds. So here we go. Eugène Gabritschevsky (1893 –1979) was a Russian biologist and artist. Born into a comfortable family of scientists from Imperial Russia, his father was a renowned bacteriologist, and worked with Louis Pasteur in France and with Robert Koch in Germany. Gabritschevsky studied biology at the University of Moscow from 1913, specializing in problems related to heredity. He finished his studies successfully and went into research. In 1924, he was invited to the United States, where he continued his work for two years, and in 1926, settled in Paris, and continued his research at the Pasteur Institute. By the age of thirty-three, he was well known in his field, and world-renowned for his knowledge on the laws of mutation in the lives of insects, which of course, I know absolutely nothing about! In 1929