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
Awards	Order of Lenin (2 times) Order of the Red Banner of Labour Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Corresponding Member of Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1932)
Scientific career
Fields	Biology, botany
Institutions	Moscow University Voronezh State University
Author abbrev. (botany)	Koso-Pol.

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]