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Trofim Lysenko
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko was a Soviet agronomist. He rejected Mendelian genetics in favour of his own idiosyncratic, pseudoscientific ideas later termed Lysenkoism.
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science · Soviet agronomist and pseudoscientist (1898–1976) · biologist · geneticist · botanist · inventor · politician · agronomist · agricultural biologist · also Trofim Lysenko, T. D. Lysenko, Trofim Lyssenko, Lysenko
Born 17 September 1898 · Died 20 November 1976 · Q294234
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2018· 1 entry
Published “Albiglutide and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (Harmony Outcomes): a double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial” in The Lancet — cited 1,603 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Published “Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger <sup>*</sup>” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 3,686 times.
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2016· 3 entries
Awarded Honorary Academician of VRAL (2016).
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Published “Vegetation of Europe: hierarchical floristic classification system of vascular plant, bryophyte, lichen, and algal communities” in Applied Vegetation Science — cited 1,183 times.
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Published “Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment” in Science — cited 948 times.
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2015· 2 entries
Published “ERBB2 triggers mammalian heart regeneration by promoting cardiomyocyte dedifferentiation and proliferation” in Nature Cell Biology — cited 634 times.
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Published “Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity” in Nature — cited 3,807 times.
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2013· 2 entries
Published “Comparative Analysis of Measures of Viral Reservoirs in HIV-1 Eradication Studies” in PLoS Pathogens — cited 522 times.
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Published “A randomised, double-blind, multicentre, parallel-group, prospective study comparing the pharmacokinetics, safety, and efficacy of CT-P13 and innovator infliximab in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: the PLANETAS study” in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases — cited 512 times.
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2012· 1 entry
Published “T2R38 taste receptor polymorphisms underlie susceptibility to upper respiratory infection” in Journal of Clinical Investigation — cited 529 times.
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2010· 1 entry
Published “Recognition of peptidoglycan from the microbiota by Nod1 enhances systemic innate immunity” in Nature Medicine — cited 1,028 times.
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2005· 1 entry
Published “Measuring the extent and effectiveness of protected areas as an indicator for meeting global biodiversity targets” in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences — cited 800 times.
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Taxonomic study of aerobic thermophilic bacilli: descriptions of Geobacillus subterraneus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Geobacillus uzenensis sp. nov. from petroleum reservoirs and transfer of Bacillus stearothermophilus, Bacillus thermocatenulatus, Bacillus thermoleovorans, Bacillus kaustophilus, Bacillus thermodenitrificans to Geobacillus as the new combinations G. stearothermophilus, G. th.” in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology — cited 621 times.
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1976· 2 entries
Died 1976-11-20.
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And was ultimately interred in the Kuntsevo Cemetery, although the Soviet government refused to announce Lysenko's death for two days after the event and gave his passing only a small note in Izvestia
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1969· 1 entry
“In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin”
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1965· 1 entry
Lysenko was removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Academy of Sciences and restricted to an experimental farm in Moscow's Lenin Hills (the Institute itself was soon dissolved)
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1964· 2 entries
Physicist Andrei Sakharov spoke out against Lysenko in the General Assembly of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR:
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The president of the Academy of Sciences declared that Lysenko's immunity to criticism had officially ended
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1962· 1 entry
Three of the most prominent Soviet physicists, Yakov Zeldovich, Vitaly Ginzburg, and Pyotr Kapitsa, presented a case against Lysenko, proclaiming his work as pseudoscience
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1961).
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1959· 1 entry
Won Medal "For Labour Valour" (1959).
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1958).
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1955· 1 entry
An attempt was made to disempower Lysenko, with a letter signed by more than three hundred scientists, the so-called "Letter of three hundred", which was sent to Nikita Khrushchev
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1953).
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1949· 3 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1949).
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Awarded State Stalin Prize, 1st degree (1949).
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Through 1956, when a genetics conference in Qingdao spurred the resumption of genetics teaching and research in the country
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1948· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1948).
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1947· 1 entry
“In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow”
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1946· 1 entry
Lysenko wrote an article titled "Genetics" for the 3rd edition of the Agricultural Encyclopedia
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1945· 6 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1945).
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Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1945).
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Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1945).
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In the American Encyclopedia, and describes features of "Michurinist genetics
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In one of the best state farms in the Omsk region, "Lesnoy", from an area of winter wheat crops of 91 hectares, sown according to all the rules recommended by Academician Lysenko, only 6 centners of grain were collected,
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“For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”
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1944· 1 entry
In seven registered districts of the Novosibirsk region, the average yield of winter rye stubble was 3
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1943· 3 entries
Awarded Stalin Prize (1943).
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Awarded State Stalin Prize, 1st degree (1943).
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The first edition of Lysenko's collection was published, titled Agrobiology: Work on genetics, breeding and seed production
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1942· 1 entry
“in 1940, millet on millions of hectares had already become the highest-yielding grain crop”
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1941· 1 entry
Awarded Stalin Prize (1941).
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1940· 4 entries
Millet on millions of hectares had already become the highest-yielding grain crop" and called for "a turn towards millet
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Which gave him even more control over genetics
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Lysenko eventually became the director of Genetics for the Academy of Sciences in 1940, which gave him even more control over genetics.
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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,
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1939· 1 entry
According to official data, by changing the agricultural technology of millet, Lysenko allegedly increased the yield of millet from 2-3 to 15 centners per hectare
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1938· 1 entry
Lysenko became president of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences
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1937· 1 entry
Was canceled and instead took place in 1939 in Edinburgh
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1935· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1935).
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Experimental vernalized crops of spring grain were carried out by more than 40,000 collective and state farms on an area of 2
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1934· 1 entry
Was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR
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1933· 1 entry
Began experiments on summer planting potatoes in the south
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1931· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour of the Ukrainian SSR (1931).
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1928· 1 entry
Published a large work, "The influence of the thermal factor on the duration of plant development phases
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1927· 2 entries
The main provisions of this work were reported by Lysenko at the "congress convened by the People's Commissariat for Agriculture of the Azerbaijan SSR at the Ganja station," and then, in December 1928, at the All-Union M
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Lysenko embarked on the research that would lead to his 1928 paper on vernalization, which drew wide attention because of its potential practical implications for Soviet agriculture
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1925· 1 entry
Studied at National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (1922–1925).
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1923· 1 entry
Published his first scientific works: "Techniques and methods of tomato selection at the Belotserkovskaya selection station" and "Grafting of sugar beets
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1922· 1 entry
Lysenko entered the Kiev Agricultural Institute (now the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine)
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1921· 1 entry
Studied at Uman National University of Horticulture (1917–1921).
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1917· 1 entry
Entered and in 1921 he graduated from the secondary school of horticulture in Uman (now the Uman National University of Horticulture)
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1913· 1 entry
After graduating from a two-year rural school, he entered the lower school of horticulture in Poltava
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-09-17.
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