What is Zhores Medvedev?
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}} '''Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev''' ({{lang-ru|Жоре́с Алекса́ндрович Медве́дев}}; 14 November 1925 – 15 November 2018) was a [[Russia]]n [[agronomist]], [[biologist]], [[historian]] and [[dissident]]. His twin brother is the historian [[Roy Medvedev]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findingaids.nlm.nih.gov/repositories/ammp/resources/medvedev226|title=Zhores A. Medvedev, Mezhdunarodnoe sotrudnichestvo uchenykh i natsional 'nye granitsy 1969-1970|via=[[National Library of Medicine]]}}</ref> He was born in [[Tbilisi]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]. Medvedev published about 170 research papers and reviews, about sixty of them during his time in London. In 1973 he was one of the signers of the [[Humanist Manifesto II|Humanist Manifesto]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.americanhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_II | title=Humanist Manifesto II | publisher=American Humanist Association | access-date=9 October 2012 | archive-date=20 October 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020110719/http://www.americanhumanist.org/humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_II | url-status=dead }}</ref> Medvedev exposed the [[Kyshtym disaster|Kyshtym nuclear disaster]], which happened at [[Mayak]] near [[Kyshtym]], [[Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast]] in the Urals in 1957. He published the book ''The Nuclear Disaster in the Urals'' in 1979. He and his brother Roy were forced to move to [[London]]. The two also coauthored ''Khrushchev: The Years in Power'' (1978) and several other books, the last one ''The Unknown Stalin'' (2007). Medvedev died in London on 15 November 2018 of a [[heart attack]], one day after his 93rd birthday, with his family by his side.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://newizv.ru/news/science/16-11-2018/v-londone-umer-zhores-medvedev?ind=1&page=1&show_dt=1 | title=В Лондоне умер Жорес Медведев| publisher=[[Novye Izvestia]]| access-date=16 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url= https://rossaprimavera.ru/news/967f9f9c| title=Ушёл из жизни Жорес Медведев| publisher=IA Red Spri