Izrail Iossofovich Agol was a Soviet geneticist and philosopher. He was a member of the USSR Academy of Science, worked briefly in the United States of America, and took an interest in radiation induced mutagenesis. As a Marxist philosopher, he also studied vitalist and mechanist views in biology and their relation to Marxism. He was killed in the aftermath of Trofim Lysenko's rise in the Stalin regime.
- Occupation
- biologist, philosopher, geneticist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union, Russian Empire
- Born
- 1891, November 20, 1891
- Died
- 1937, March 8, 1937
