Nikolai Vavilov's younger brother Sergei [0] was a famous physicist who together with Pavel Cherenkov discovered Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation [1]. By the time No

Nikolai Vavilov's younger brother Sergei [0] was a famous physicist who together with Pavel Cherenkov discovered Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation [1]. By the time Nobel committee awared Cherenkov the Nobel price Sergei Vavilov already died (of natural causes). Got me thinking about genetic predisposition to science among Vavilov brothers. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Ivanovich_Vavilov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Ivanovich_Vavilov [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation