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Wladimir A. Smirnoff fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Niveau hiérarchique :

Fonds

Date :

1955-1988.

Référence :

R11849-0-2-E

Genre de documents :

Documents photographiques, Documents textuels

Trouvé dans :

Archives / Collections et fonds

No d'identification :

3674920

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Wladimir A. Smirnoff fonds
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Fonds comprend :

5 description(s) de niveau inférieur
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Date(s) :

1955-1988.

Équivalent bilingue :

Cliquez ici

Lieu de création :

Québec (Province)

Étendue :

1.6 m of textual records.
40 photographs : 17 b&w prints and 23 b&w electron microscopies.

Langue du document :

anglais

Langue du document additionnelle :

anglais, français, allemand, polonais, russe, ukrainien, japonais, italien

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The fonds consists of W.A. Smirnoff's office files created during his 28 year career working for the Laurentian Forest Research Centre and covers the period between 1955 and 1984. The records cover his research on the development of the biological insecticide, Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.) to control spruce budworm populations in North American forests. The records document the progression of B.t. from the early stages of experimentation to its operational use. Included in the fonds are Smirnoff's scientific publications and conference papers, correspondence with other scientific research centres in Canada and the United States, reports on the development of B.t. and test results, photographs, press releases and several theses written by graduate students on Bacillus thuringiensis.

Fonds consists of the following series and sub-series: Articles and Speeches (Series); Articles and Speeches by W.A. Smirnoff (Sub-Series); Articles and Speeches by Other Authors (Sub-Series); Articles and Speeches in Foreign Languages (Sub-Series); Laurentian Forest Research Centre (Series); Correspondence (Sub-Series); Subject Files (Sub-Series); Reports (Sub-Series); News Releases (Sub-Series); Theses (Series); Photographs (Series)

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Smirnoff, Wladimir A, 1917-2000
Nom(s) additionnel(s) :

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Environment Canada - Canada Forest Service (CFS)

Laurentian Forest Research Centre (LFRC)

Centre de Recherche Forestière Laurentienne (CRFL)

Natural Resources Canada - Canada Forest Service (CFS)

Canada United States Cooperative Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.) Spray Trails (CANUSA)
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Smirnoff, Wladimir A, 1917-2000 : Dr. Wladimir A. Smirnoff was an insect pathologist and forestry researcher. He was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia in 1917. He studied forest engineering at the USSR Forestry Insitute and did doctoral studies in entomology at the Forest Academy in Saint Petersburg, USSR.

After the Second World War, Smirnoff fled the Soviet Union with his wife and their first daughter. From 1947 to 1957, he worked for the Morocco Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA) as a research scientist, developing control methods against scale insects on palm and citrus trees. While at the INRA, Smirnoff completed his doctoral degree in science at the Sorbonne in Paris.

In 1957, Smirnoff and his family immigrated to Canada where he worked for the Laurentian Forest Research Centre in Ste.-Foy, Quebec as head of the Canadian Forest Service's Insect Pathology Division. During this time, he was also an adjunct professor at the Research Centre in Forest Biology at Laval University where he supervised doctoral studies and taught courses for post-graduate students. Smirnoff was also a renowned nature artist and his paintings have been exhibited across Canada and the world.

As a research scientist Smirnoff developed new approaches for fighting insect pests. He studied viral and bacterial diseases in insects, discovering more than twenty new viruses. He studied the effects of chemical and biological insecticides and pesticides on the environment, developing operational uses for insect diseases to control the population of harmful insects to Canadian forests. Smirnoff's main preoccupation was the spruce budworm. In 1974, he developed the biological insecticide Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.) which is widely used around the world.

Smirnoff published over 300 scientific papers throughout his lifetime and received a number of honours and awards, amongst which the most prestigious are the Maurice Thérèse Pic Award which he received from the French Government for his work in Africa and the Prix Léo-Pariseau from the Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences (ACFAS) in 1984. In 1988 he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada and he received the Order of Canada in 1997. In 2001, the Société de protection des forêts contre les insectes et maladies (SOPFIM) and Natural Resources Canada-Canadian Forestry Service (NRC-CFS) created the Wladimir Smirnoff Fellowship given every year to two graduate students studying biological forest pest control at a Quebec University.

W.A. Smirnoff and his wife, Alexandra, had three daughters, Natalie, Olga and Tania. He died in Ste.-Foy, Quebec on November 1, 2000 at the age of 83.

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MSS2440

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Textual material (Électronique) Finding aid prepared by Erika Reinhardt, 2006. MSS2440 (90: Ouvert)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002147.pdf
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Trees

Biologists

Forests and forestry

Scientists

Aerial spraying and dusting in forestry

Insects

Entomologists

Entomology

Canadian Forestry Service

Forests and forestry - Experimental areas

Forests and forestry - Quebec

Insect control

Biology

Wildlife Conservation

Forests

Forest Preservation

Scientific Research

Forest Protection

Canadian Forests

Nature

Ecology

Insect Pathology

Insects - Spruce Budworms

Insects - Gypsy Moths

Insect Pathologists

Microorganisms - Research

Scientific Research - practical applications of,

Taxonomy

Agronomy

Virology

Insect Diseases

Insect Pathogens

Insecticides

Insecticides - Biological

Trees - Spruce

Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.)

Environmentalism

Quebec Forests

Laurentian Forest
Source :

Privé

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2006-00398-4
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