Word: popov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always been behind." It was the 19th century Russian Botanist Dmitry Ivanovsky who discovered the first plant virus. Dmitry Pryanishnikov originated soil research, and world-famed Dmitry Mendeleev charted the elements and drew up the periodic scale still found in every high school laboratory. Had Aleksandr Popov worked a bit faster, he might well have wrested from Marconi credit for inventing the radio. In 1904 Ivan Pavlov won a Nobel Prize for his work on the conditioned reflex, and four years later, Ilya Mechnikov won another for his studies of the destruction of bacteria by white blood cells...
Equally as ridiculous as communist historical exaggerations were the claims made for Russia's fabulous inventors. These credited Popov with the discovery of the radio and made Marconi only a thief who profitted from the fruit of Popov's searches. Zhukovskij, the "father of flying," replaced the Wright brothers, Edison also bowed out before a Russian, and so on until every epochal inventive laurel was redistributed...
More than two months after it occurred, the Canadian government last week made public details of another Soviet espionage case. Gennadi Popov, a second secretary at Ottawa's Soviet embassy - the same embassy where Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko exposed a vast spy apparatus in 1945 - was ordered out of Canada last July for trying to bribe an R.C.A.F. civilian employee...
...espionage incident was, much tamer than the Gouzenko case. Gouzenko's revelations involved top British and Canadian atomic scientists and a Member of Parliament. Popov's only known contact was a Grade 2 air-force clerk, James Stanley Staples, 30, whom he met at an Ottawa chess club...
When the Russian invited him out for a drink, Staples asked a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer for advice and was told to accept and keep the Mountie informed. Then, under the illusion that he had been deputized as a counterspy, Staples began chumming around with Popov and other Russians; the conversation eventually drifted around to Staples' work and R.C.A.F. aircraft. His police friend warned him to stop, but Staples continued meeting the Russians. Finally, when Popov gave him $50 (Staples said he gave it back) and spoke about providing him with a camera, government security officers cracked down...