Trofim Lysenko

Soviet agronomist and biologist (1898-1976)

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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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Born: 1898
Died: 1976
Works: 47

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Soil Nutrition Of Plants
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Herdity And Its Variability
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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.