Trofim Lysenko
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| Trofim Denisovich Lysenko | |
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| Born | September 29, 1898, Karlovka, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | November 20, 1976 (aged 78), Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Education | Kiev Agricultural Institute |
| Occupation | Agronomist, biologist, Director of Institute of Genetics (Soviet Academy of Sciences), President of VASKhNIL |
| Known for | Lysenkoism, vernalization, rejection of Mendelian genetics |
| Notable works | Heredity and Its Variability (1943), Agrobiology (1948), The Science of Biology Today (1948) |
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Early Life[edit]
- Born October 29, 1898 in Karlivka, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine)
- Came from a peasant farming family
- Reportedly illiterate until age 13
Education and Career[edit]
- Graduated from Kiev Agricultural Institute (1925)
- Worked at the Gandzha Experimental Station in Azerbaijan
- Rose to prominence in the late 1920s with claims about vernalization (cold-treating seeds)
- Director of the Institute of Genetics, Soviet Academy of Sciences (1940–1965)
- President of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VASKhNIL)
- Lost influence after Khrushchev's fall in 1964; formally dismissed from directorship in 1965
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Death[edit]
Trofim Lysenko died on November 20, 1976, in Moscow, at the age of 78.
Published works[edit]
- Heredity and Its Variability (1943)
- Agrobiology (1948)
- The Science of Biology Today (1948)
- Numerous papers on vernalization and "socialist agriculture"
