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Trofim Lysenko
Trofím Denísovich Lysénko is a Soviet agronomist and biologist. Lysenko was a strong supporter of Lamarck theory and rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of pseudo-scientific ideas known as Lysenko's theory. In 1940, Lysenko became director of the Genetics Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and he used his political influence and power to suppress dissent and discredit. , marginalization and imprisonment of his critics, elevating anti-Mendelian theories to sanctioned state levels. theory. Soviet scientists who refused to give up genetics were removed from their positions and had no resources. Hundreds, if not thousands, of others have been jailed. Some were sentenced to death as enemies of the state, including the botanist Nikolai Vavilov. Lysenko's scientific disagreement over the theory of environmental inheritance was officially banned in the Soviet Union in 1948 .
BornTrofim Denisovich Lysenko, September 29, 1898, Karlivka, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedNovember 20, 1976, Moscow, Soviet Union
CitizenshipSoviet
FieldsBiology, Agronomy
InstitutionsSoviet Academy of Sciences
Alma materKiev Agricultural Institute
Known forLysenkoism, Rejecting Mendelian inheritance, Vernalization

About Trofim Lysenko

Environmentalist Trofim Lysenko was born in Ukraine on September 29, 1898. He dies at the age of 78, on November 20, 1976.

He is most known for leading the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences and for founding Lysenkoism, a political and scientific movement that culminated in Soviet government control of agriculture and genetics research.

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Trofim Lysenko before becoming famous

Trofim Lysenko was born in the Zodiac sign Libra (The Scales), and 1898 is also the year of Dog (狗) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He authored a major scholarly article on vernalization after studying at the Kiev Agricultural Institute (the ability of plants to bloom after exposure to cold temperatures).

Achievement of Trofim Lysenko

Lysenko's politically motivated agricultural research were publicly labelled as pseudoscience in the early 1960s by several notable Soviet scientists, notably physicists Pyotr Kapitsa and Vitaly Ginzburg.

Trofim Lysenko's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He was born in an agricultural region of what is now Ukraine to peasants Oksana and Denis Lysenko.

Trofim Lysenko Collabed with

He embraced the views of Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, a horticulture specialist who investigated hybridization, instead of Geneticist Gregor Mendel's theory of genetics.

Trofim Lysenko Income & Net worth

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