# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/boris-kozo-polyansky
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:06:07.764Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/boris-kozo-polyansky"
name: "Boris Kozo-Polyansky"
slug: "boris-kozo-polyansky"
description: "Boris Mikhailovich Kozo-Polyansky 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."
tagline: "Russian (Soviet) botanist (1890-1957)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1890-01-08"
deathDate: "1957-04-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump