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Trofim Lysenko
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Soviet agronomist and biologist (1898-1976)
Trofim Lysenko was a Soviet agronomist and biologist who became influential in Stalin's government by promoting theories of inheritance that contradicted modern genetics. His ideas, which were politically favored but scientifically incorrect, had damaging effects on Soviet agriculture and delayed the country's progress in biological science.
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Key facts
- Born
- Trofim Denisovich Lysenko , ( 1898-09-29 ) 29 September 1898, Karlovka , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire (now Karlivka, Poltava Oblast , Ukraine)
- Died
- 20 November 1976 (1976-11-20) (aged 78), Moscow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Education
- Kiev Agricultural Institute (1925), Uman Agropolytechnicum [ ru ] (1921)
- Known for
- Lysenkoism Rejecting Mendelian inheritance Vernalization
- Fields
- Biology Agronomy
- Institutions
- Soviet Academy of Sciences
- Notable students
- Artavazd Avakyan [ ru ] , Pyotr Kononkov [ ru ]
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Karlivka
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Occupation
- inventor
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Notable work
- Lysenkoism
- Participant in
- International Military Tribunal
- Field of work
- biology
- Image
- Trofim Lysenko portrait.jpg
- Residence
- Odesa
- Significant event
- VASKhNIL session 1948
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- place of burial
- Kuntsevo Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1898-09-17
- date of death
- 1976-11-20
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- Trofim Lysenko
- ethnic group
- Ukrainians
- name in native language
- Трохим Денисович Лисенко
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- Trofim Lysenko
- different from
- Lysenko
- described at URL
- baike.sogou.com/v69077469.htm
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- Trofim Lysenko
- professorship
- academician
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Encyclopedic overview
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (Russian: Трофи́м Дени́сович Лысе́нко; Ukrainian: Троxи́м Дени́сович Лисе́нко, romanized: Trokhym Denysovych Lysenko, IPA: [troˈxɪm deˈnɪsowɪtʃ lɪˈsɛnko]; 29 September [O.S. 17 September] 1898 – 20 November 1976) was a Soviet agronomist. He rejected Mendelian genetics in favour of his own idiosyncratic, pseudoscientific ideas later termed Lysenkoism.
In 1940, Lysenko became director of the Institute of Genetics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and he used his political influence and power to suppress dissenting opinions and discredit, marginalize, and imprison his critics, elevating his anti-Mendelian theories to state-sanctioned doctrine.
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