Boris Kozo-Polyansky

Boris Kozo-Polyansky
Born	Boris Mikhailovich Kozo-Polyansky (1890-01-20)20 January 1890 Ashgabat, Transcaspian Oblast, Russian Empire
Died	21 April 1957(1957-04-21) (aged 67) Voronezh, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater	Moscow University
Known for	Endosymbiosis
Scientific career
Fields	Biology Botany
Institutions	Moscow University Voronezh State University

Boris Mikhailovich Kozo-Polyansky (Russian: Борис Михайлович Козо-Полянский; 20 January 1890 – 21 April 1957) was a Soviet and Russian botanist and evolutionary biologist, best known for his seminal work, Symbiogenesis: A New Principle of Evolution, which was the first work to place the theory of symbiogenesis into a Darwinian evolutionary context, as well as one of the first to redefine cell theory.^[1]