Lysenko, TrofimDenisovich
Lysenko, TrofimDenisovich (1898–1976)A fanatic anti-geneticist, who attained extraordinary power in the USSR under Stalin, and retained it under Krushchev. He sought successfully the suppression of research in genetics and was responsible for the imprisonment and execution of a number of noted Soviet geneticists. The failure of his own attempts, based on a kind of
Lamarckism, to increase grain production led to his own downfall and that of Krushchev.
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Defending legitimate epidemiologic research: combating Lysenko pseudoscience.(Analytic Perspective)
Magazine article from: Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations; 10/10/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...tactics that have been used against me, I conclude by making an analogy with the pseudoscientific practices of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko [2]. Hopefully, my defense will encourage and/or help other honest scientists to defend their research...
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Political Science
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/3/2001; ; 700+ words
; Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1898-1976) was a Soviet-era...prompted to exclaim, "Bravo, Comrade Lysenko, bravo!" His name was Josef Stalin. America has no Lysenko, but it does suffer from what might...
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Operation Oilseed
Magazine article from: International News on Fats, Oils and Related Materials : INFORM; 11/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...according to the faulty scientific direction of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1898-1976). Under Lysenko, science in the Soviet Union was guided...his "method of reserves " that satisfied Lysenko. In the meantime, back in its birthplace...
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Stanislaw Lem, 84; Polish Sci-Fi Author
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/28/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...refused to embrace the quack theories of Stalin's handpicked medical adviser, the agronomist Trofim Denisovich Lysenko. He began satirizing Lysenko in a science magazine and soon abandoned his medical studies. In 1948, Mr. Lem completed a...
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Letter to the Editor: Getting the `right' smoking results
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 4/12/1998; 534 words
; ...s end. Likewise, in the Soviet Union, science was totally subject to political control. The geneticist Trofim Denisovich Lysenko was supported by Stalin because his thesis that acquired characteristics could be inherited was politically...
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Cloning, it's not
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 2/15/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...George W. Bush, take note. More than three-quarters of a century ago, Josef Stalin's science adviser, Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, persuaded the Russian dictator that Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories were nonsense. Instead, he...
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Reforming Soviet culture, retrieving Soviet history.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 6/13/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...may be welcomed publicly to Moscow, Lolita and Ivan Denisovich--an unlikely couple--are not eligible for imminent...the abuses of Soviet science under the biogeneticist Trofim Lysenko; and Anna Akhmatova's anti-Stalinist poem "Requiem...
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Trofim Denisovich Lysenko
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko The Soviet agronomist Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1898-1976) developed a number...theories see Maxim W. Mikulak, "Trofim Denisovich Lysenko," in George W. Simmonds...
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Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
LYSENKO, TROFIM DENISOVICH (1898 – 1976), agronomist and biologist. Trofim Denisovich Lysenko was born in Karlovka, Ukraine, to a peasant family. He attended...
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Zhdanov, Andrei Alexandrovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...Zhdanov was dying in August 1948, Lysenko was given free reign in science...proteges. See also: jews; lysenko, trofim denisovich; malenkov, georgy maximilyanovich...The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko. New York: Columbia University...
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Nemchinov, Vasily Sergeyevich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...in the struggle with Trofim Lysenko over genetics, he harbored...and defended them against the Lysenko forces. As a result, he was...also: academy of sciences; lysenko, trofim denisovich bibliography Nemchinov, Vasilii...
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Medvedev, Zhores Alexandrovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...known for his criticism of the Lysenko regime in Soviet science. His book The Rise and Fall of the Lysenko Regime circulated in samizdat...science in general. See also: lysenko, trofim denisovich; medvedev, roy alexander bibliography...
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