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    Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (Russian: Трофи́м Дени́сович Лысе́нко; Ukrainian: Трохи́м Дени́сович Лисе́нко, romanized: Trokhym Denysovych Lysenko, IPA: [troˈxɪm...
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    [lɪˈsɛnkiu̯ʃtʃɪnɐ]) was a political campaign led by Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko against genetics and science-based agriculture in the mid-20th century...
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  • patron saint of Arles Trofim Lomakin (1924–1973), Russian weightlifter Trofim Lysenko (1898–1976), Soviet agrobiologist Trofim Kichko, Soviet author of...
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  • Mykola Lysenko (1842–1912), Ukrainian composer, after whom the Lysenko music school and Lysenko State Conservatory are named. Trofim Lysenko (1898–1976)...
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    that sustain the global population. Vavilov's work was criticized by Trofim Lysenko, whose anti-Mendelian concepts of plant biology had won favor with Joseph...
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    identified the centres of origin of cultivated plants. Trofim Lysenko was known mainly for Lysenkoism. Many famous Russian scientists and inventors were émigrés...
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    geneticists. After Trofim Lysenko had taken control over the academy, it became for about thirty years a stronghold of Lysenkoism. The proverbial among...
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    1940s Stalin put Trofim Lysenko in charge of agricultural research, with his crackpot ideas that flouted modern genetics science. Lysenko maintained his...
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    ecology, purged environmentalists and promoted the pseudoscience of Trofim Lysenko during his rule up until his death in 1953. Similarly, Mao Zedong rejected...
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    endorsed research of an agrobiologist Trofim Lysenko despite the fact that it was rejected by the majority of Lysenko's scientific peers as pseudo-scientific...
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  • Club de l'Horloge created in 1990 the "Lysenko prize", in reference to Soviet pseudo-scientist Trofim Lysenko. The satirical award has since been attributed...
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    the Soviet Union of the 1930s when Trofim Lysenko promoted the ideologically driven research programme, Lysenkoism; this suited the ideological opposition...
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    during the Stalinist purges along with other geneticists who opposed Trofim Lysenko. Solomon Levit was born as Shliom Girshevich Levit in to a Jewish family...
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  • the novel, to brief mention of the theories of the Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko, a proponent of Lamarckism who eventually was thoroughly debunked. "In...
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  • allusion to a Molotov cocktail. Vybegallo is modeled in large part on Trofim Lysenko, the charlatan and politico responsible for many setbacks in the science...
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  • series, the triffids were the creation of real-life Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko. The seeds were spread across the globe when a plane smuggling them...
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  • would be based on the ideas of later-discredited Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko. One of these ideas was close planting, whereby the density of seedlings...
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    research in the post-World War II era. Trofim Lysenko however caused a backlash of what is now called Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union when he emphasised...
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    fraudulent claims and personal ties with Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Trofim Lysenko and Alexander Oparin. She rejected genetics and was an advocate of spontaneous...
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    examples of suppression of ideas. In the most notorious, agronomist Trofim Lysenko refused to accept the chromosome theory of heredity usually accepted...
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    in 1935 and perished in prison in 1943 following his conflicts with Trofim Lysenko. The controversy would also contribute to a decline in genetic research...
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    of Leningrad Soviet famine of 1930–1933 Soviet famine of 1946–1947 Trofim Lysenko Aleksey Shakhmatov Alexander Blok Golubev, Genady; Nikolai Dronin (February...
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    to the study of genetics in the Soviet Union once the doctrines of Trofim Lysenko had gained the backing of the State. Demands in Britain, for example...
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  • class nature. Stalin removed all mention of “bourgeois biology” from Trofim Lysenko’s report, The State of Biology in the Soviet Union, and in the margin...
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  • Odesa, where he worked with Trofim Lysenko at All-Union Institute of Selection and Genetics until 1938. The alliance with Lysenko proved extremely useful...
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    winter cereals are sensitive to cold. In 1928, the Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko published his works on the effects of cold on cereal seeds, and coined...
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  • to stifle scientific research on racial differences, later dubbed "Neo-Lysenkoism", were frequently repeated by Jensen and his supporters. Jensen (1972)...
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    biology and their relation to Marxism. He was killed in the aftermath of Trofim Lysenko's rise in the Stalin regime. Agol was born in Babruysk, Belarus to a...
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    socialist realism and he also criticized the pseudoscience of biologist Trofim Lysenko. In a November 1953 speech, Malenkov denounced corruption in various...
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    systems, and a major contributor to Soviet space and defense technology Trofim Lysenko – agronomist and biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky – [geneticist] and...
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