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Dobzhansky was born in Nemirov , Ukraine then part of Imperial Russia, and his father was a mathematics teacher. Dobzhansky attended the University of Kiev between 1917 and 1921, before moving to Leningrad ( St. Petersburg). He taught at the California Institute of TechnologyCalifornia Institute of Technology MottoThe truth shall make you free Established 1891 School type Private President David Baltimore Location Pasadena, CA, USA Enrollment 900 undergraduate,1,200 graduate Faculty 386 Endowment US$1. 3 billion Campus Urban, from 1930 to 1940 and subsquently moved to Columbia UniversityColumbia University officially known as Columbia University in the City of New York is a private institution of higher education. It is one of the world's foremost research universities and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1754 under a royal charter from 1940 to 1962. He did much important genetic research, mainly on various species of DrosophilaDrosophila melanogaster Drosophila subobscura Drosophila ( Greek , drosos " dew", + phila "loving") is a genus of fruit fly however, members of Drosophila are more appropriately termed vinegar flies, wine flies, pomace flies, grape flies, and picked fruit.
Dobzhansky was one of the engineers of the modern evolutionary synthesisThe modern evolutionary synthesis (often referred to simply as the modern synthesis , neo-Darwinian synthesis or neo-Darwinism brings together Charles Darwin's theory of the evolution of species by natural selection with Gregor Mendel's theory of genetics, which united Mendelian genetics with evolution. He is notable for defining evolution as "a change in the frequency of an allele in a gene pool", in his 1937 book and for the phrase " nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution", which is the title of a 1973 essay criticising Creationism.