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Trofim Lysenko Was born
sourceTrofim Lysenko was born on September 29, 1898 to peasant farmers Denis and Oksana Lysenko. -
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School
source Trofim attended Kiev Institute Of Agriculture in 1925 where he earned a BS in Agronomy -
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Lysenko enjoyed the title of "barefoot scientist"—the embodiment of the mythic Soviet peasant genius due to his impossible successes with growing crops of peas during winter months. -
wrote paper
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In 1928, at the age of 30, Lysenko wrote a paper on vernalization, a process of fertilization of crops. He coined the term "Jarovization" to describe a chilling process he used to make the seeds of winter cereals behave like spring cereals. -
Joseph Stalin
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Lysenko's experimental research in improved crop yields earned the support of Joseph Stalin, a soviet leader, following the famine in several regions of the Soviet Union in the early 1930's. -
opponents of Lysenko
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Lysenko's main opponent was Nikolai Vavilov. His student Konstantinov carried out a five-year study from which found that Lysenko's vernalization process had no effect on crop yields, as everyone believed. -
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school
Lysenko was the president of the Soviet Academy of Agricultural Sciences -
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Trofim's work
In 1948, Trofim's theories of Enviormentally acquired inheritence were formally outlawed. -
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Agricultural Practices
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By the 1950's, Lysenko's influence on Soviet agricultural practices had dramatically declined. -
case against Lysenko
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In 1962 three Soviet physicists, Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Vitaly Ginzburg, and Pyotr Kapitsa, presented a case against Lysenko, proclaiming his work as false science. -
Trofim's work
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Lysenko's work was ofically discredited in the Soviet Union in 1964, which lead to re-instituting Mendelain Genetics -
Lysenko discredited
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An expert commission was sent to investigate records kept at Lysenko's experimental farm. A devastating critique of Lysenko was made public. As a result, Lysenko was immediately disgraced in the Soviet Union. -
against Lysenko
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In 1964, physicist Andrei Sakharov spoke out against Lysenko in the General Assembly of the Academy of Sciences. -
Trofim's Work
Even though Lysenko's work was outlawed he still remained at his post In the Institute of Gentics -
removed from post
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In 1965, Lysenko was removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Academy of Sciences. -
