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Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (Russian: Трофи́м Дени́сович Лысе́нко; Ukrainian: Трохи́м Дени́сович Лисе́нко, romanized: Trokhym Denysovych Lysenko, IPA: [troˈxɪm deˈnɪsowɪtʃ lɪˈsɛnko]; 29 September [O.S. 17 September] 1898 – 20 November 1976) was a Soviet agronomist and pseudoscientist.
Trofim Lysenko (born 1898, Karlovka, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died November 20, 1976, Kiev, Ukrainian S.S.R.) was a Soviet biologist and agronomist, the controversial “dictator” of Communistic biology during Joseph Stalin’s regime.
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Dec 19, 2017 · The Soviet Era's Deadliest Scientist Is Regaining Popularity in Russia. Trofim Lysenko’s spurious research prolonged famines that killed millions. So why is a fringe movement praising his...
Feb 9, 2021 · Trofim Lysenko was a Soviet agronomist who rejected genetics and claimed that plants could be trained to grow in winter and cooperate with each other. His faulty ideas led to disastrous agricultural policies that caused famine and death in the Soviet Union.
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May 23, 2018 · Learn about Trofim Lysenko, a controversial figure in twentieth-century science who rejected genetics and promoted vernalization and other techniques. Find out how he rose to power, influenced Soviet agriculture, and faced criticism and condemnation.
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko ( Russian: Трофи́м Дени́сович Лысе́нко) (September 29, 1898 – November 20, 1976) was a Soviet biologist who, during the 1930s, led a campaign of agricultural science, now known as Lysenkoism, which went explicitly against contemporary agricultural genetics and lasted until the mid-1960s in ...
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Apr 22, 2016 · In Lysenko's Ghost, Loren Graham explores the latest attempts to restore the legacy of the Ukrainian agronomist Trofim Lysenko (1898–1976), who spearheaded a campaign to reject Mendelian genetics in favor of a pseudoscientific theory of environmentally induced heredity in the USSR from the late 1920s to the mid-1960s.
