On March 14, 1912, geneticist Joseph Rapoport, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences was born. Personal business Joseph Abramovich Rapoport (1912–1990) was born in Chernigov in the family of a doctor. From 1912 to 1922, his family lived in Slavyansk, where he went to school, then they returned to Chernigov, there Joseph Rapoport graduated from high school and entered the agronomic college.