Background
LYSENKO, Trofim was born in 1898 in village Karlovka, now Poltava Oblast.
LYSENKO, Trofim was born in 1898 in village Karlovka, now Poltava Oblast.
1921 graduated Uman School of Horticulture. 1925 graduated Kiev Agriculture Institute.
Since 1921 at Belaya Tserkov Selection Station. 1925-1929 at Experimental Selection Station in Gandzha, now Kirovobad. 1929-1934 Senior Specialist,Department of Physiology, 193436 Science Director, 1936-1938 Director, All-Union Selection and Genetics Institute, Odessa.
1938-1956 President, All-Union Lenin Academy, of Agriculture Science. Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of all convocation. 1960 elected honorary member, Czechoslovak Academy, of Agriculture Science.
Specialist in research on: heredity and its variability. The individual development of organisms. Intraspccific and interspecific relations.
Laws of the formation of species. Crop nutrition; etc. Rejects the validity of Mendelian, Morganian and Neo-Mendelian genetics, whose findings are generally accepted in the West.
His own work is based on Michurins genetics. 1948 stated in a paper on “The State of Biological Science” delivered at a session of the AJl-Union Lenin Academy, of Agriculture that progressive biological science was indebted to Lenin and Stalin. After Stalin’s death Lysenko’s authority in science circles waned.
At this time negative results were obtained in the application of his theoretical concepts in agric. In recent years critical articles have appeared in Soviet journals condemning his agronomical methods. 1961 regained prom- 1 inence.
Although not a Party member Lysenko took part in congresses and plenums of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1960 headed Soviet delegation at All-Hungarian Conference on Maize Cultivation Problems in Budapest.
Author: Work During the Great Patriotic War, 1943. Agrobiology, 1952
Phase Plant Development, 1952. Selected Works, 1953.
Religion stops people thinking in a logical and reasonable way.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member presidium, from 1935. Member Czechoslovakian Academy Agrl. Member Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy Science, Ukranian Academy Science Author: Work During the Great Patriotic War, 1943.