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Trofim Lysenko

1898 - 1976

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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 scientist. He was a proponent of Lamarckism, and 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. Soviet scientists who refused to renounce genetics were dismissed from their posts and left destitute. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Trofim Lysenko is the 36th most popular biologist (up from 63rd in 2019), the 42nd most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 95th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Biologist.

Trofim Lysenko is most famous for his work in the field of genetics. He was a proponent of the idea that organisms are shaped by their environment, and that they could be altered by changing the environment.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Trofim Lysenko ranks 36 out of 1,097. Before him are Luc Montagnier, Maria Sibylla Merian, Albrecht Kossel, Conrad Gessner, Francis Crick, and George Smith. After him are Barbara McClintock, John Edward Gray, Rachel Carson, Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, and Karl von Frisch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Trofim Lysenko ranks 21. Before him are Albert Lutuli, George Gershwin, C. S. Lewis, Herbert Marcuse, Liu Shaoqi, and Karl Ziegler. After him are Gunnar Myrdal, Julius Evola, Hans Krebs, Tamara de Lempicka, Karl Hermann Frank, and Rudolf Dassler. Among people deceased in 1976, Trofim Lysenko ranks 17. Before him are Jean Gabin, Fritz Lang, Leopold Ružička, André Malraux, Yonatan Netanyahu, and Eyvind Johnson. After him are Man Ray, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Henrik Dam, Jacques Monod, Benjamin Britten, and Lars Onsager.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Trofim Lysenko ranks 42 out of 1,365. Before him are Petro Poroshenko (1965), Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916), Grigory Zinoviev (1883), Ludwig von Mises (1881), Wilhelm Reich (1897), and Simon Wiesenthal (1908). After him are Symon Petliura (1879), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Igor Sikorsky (1889), George Gamow (1904), Joseph Roth (1894), and Semyon Timoshenko (1895).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Ukraine

Among biologists born in Ukraine, Trofim Lysenko ranks 2. Before him are Élie Metchnikoff (1845). After him are Alexander Georg von Bunge (1803), Waldemar Haffkine (1860), Sergei Winogradsky (1856), Michał Boym (1614), Ludwik Fleck (1896), Ivan Martinov (1771), and Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim (1888).

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