Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev () (born in the former USSR on November 14, 1925) is a Russian biologist, historian and dissident.

He is famous for exposing the nuclear disaster which occurred in the Urals in the fifties. He was one of the earliest victims of official attempts to stifle opposition by detaining dissidents in mental institutions. He was exiled in 1973 from the Soviet Union and now lives with his wife in London where he is a senior research scientist for the National Institute for Medical Research.

He is the author of "The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko" (1969), "The Medvedev Papers" (1971), "Soviet Science" (1978), and "The Nuclear Disaster in the Urals" (1979).

His twin brother Roy Medvedev is a historian, they coauthored Khrushchev: The Years in Power released in 1978. The brothers also wrote several other books.

Works

• Unknown Stalin: His Life, Death, and Legacy (with Roy Medvedev, Ellen Dahrendorf - Translator) (Overlook Press, 2005) ISBN 1585676446
• Legacy of Chernobyl (W W Norton & Co Inc, 1992) ISBN 0393308146
• Soviet Agriculture (W W Norton & Co Inc, 1988) ISBN 0393024725
• Gorbachev (W W Norton & Co Inc, 1987) ISBN 0393304086
• Andropov (W W Norton & Co Inc, 1983) ISBN 0393017915
• Nuclear Disaster in the Urals (1980) ISBN 0394744454
• Gorbachev (1986) ISBN 0631147829
• Molecular-Genetic Mechanisms of Development (1970) ISBN 0306304031
• Medvedev Papers: Fruitful Meetings between Scientists of the World (1971) ISBN 0333125207
• Ten Years after Ivan Denisovich (1974) ISBN 0394711122
• Hazards of Nuclear Power (with Alan Roberts) (1977) ISBN 0851242111
• Secrecy of Correspondence Is Guaranteed by Law (1975) ISBN 085124128X
• Stalin and the Jewish Question: New Analysis (2003, in russian) ISBN 5771202517
• Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov: Two Prophets (with Roy Medvedev) (2004, in russian) ISBN 5941170653
• Rise & Fall Of Trofim D. Lysenko ISBN 0231031831
• Medvedev Papers: The Plight Of Soviet Science ISBN 3331252077
• A Question Of Madness (with Roy Medvedev) ISBN 0140037837
• Nuclear Disaster In The Urals (Trans George Saunders) ISBN 0207958963
• Khrushchev: The Years In Power (with Roy Medvedev) ISBN 0835701549
• National Frontiers & International Scientific Cooperation (Medvedev Papers) ISBN 0851241271

1925 births | Living people | Russian biologists | Soviet dissidents