BIOLOGIST

Trofim Lysenko

1898 - 1976

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Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (Russian: Трофи́м Дени́сович Лысе́нко, Ukrainian: Трохи́м Дени́сович Лисе́нко, Ukrainian pronunciation: [troˈxɪm deˈnɪsowɪtʃ lɪˈsɛnko]; 29 September [O.S. 17 September] 1898 – 20 November 1976) was a Soviet agronomist and pseudoscientist. He was a strong proponent of Lamarckism, and rejected Mendelian genetics in favour of his own idiosyncratic, pseudoscientific ideas later termed Lysenkoism.In 1940, Lysenko became director of the Institute of Genetics within the USSR's Academy of Sciences, and he used his political influence and power to suppress dissenting opinions and discredit, marginalize, and imprison his critics, elevating his anti-Mendelian theories to state-sanctioned doctrine.Soviet scientists who refused to renounce genetics were dismissed from their posts and left destitute. Hundreds if not thousands of others were imprisoned. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Trofim Lysenko has received more than 1,175,865 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Trofim Lysenko is the 63rd most popular biologist (down from 25th in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 37th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Biologist.

Trofim Lysenko is most famous for his work in the field of genetics. He was a proponent of the idea that organisms are shaped by their environment, and that they could be altered by changing the environment.

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Over the past year Trofim Lysenko has had the most page views in the with 192,156 views, followed by Russian (119,589), and French (31,528). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (1,095.83%), Italian (190.06%), and Serbian (53.46%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Trofim Lysenko ranks 63 out of 1,097. Before him are Nikolaas Tinbergen, Daniel Bovet, John Edward Gray, Nikolai Vavilov, George Beadle, and Adelbert von Chamisso. After him are Irwin Rose, Linda B. Buck, André Michel Lwoff, August Weismann, Ulisse Aldrovandi, and Alexander Oparin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Trofim Lysenko ranks 34. Before him are Karl Ziegler, René Clair, Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, Willy Messerschmitt, Curzio Malaparte, and Jeanne Hébuterne. After him are Karl Hermann Frank, Peng Dehuai, Alexander Calder, Joris Ivens, Aloysius Stepinac, and Kenji Mizoguchi. Among people deceased in 1976, Trofim Lysenko ranks 27. Before him are Benjamin Britten, Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Leopold Ružička, Zhu De, Raymond Queneau, and Choe Yong-gon. After him are Gustav Heinemann, Alexander Calder, Rudolf Bultmann, Juscelino Kubitschek, Dalton Trumbo, and Benjamin Graham.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Trofim Lysenko ranks 95 out of 1,365. Before him are Karl Radek (1885), Clarice Lispector (1920), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), Oleg Blokhin (1952), Ivan Franko (1856), and Irène Némirovsky (1903). After him are Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), Marie Bashkirtseff (1858), Andriy Shevchenko (1976), Reinhold Glière (1874), Roman Shukhevych (1907), and Sergei Bondarchuk (1920).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Ukraine

Among biologists born in Ukraine, Trofim Lysenko ranks 2. Before him are Élie Metchnikoff (1845). After him are Waldemar Haffkine (1860), Ludwik Fleck (1896), Alexander Georg von Bunge (1803), Sergei Winogradsky (1856), Michał Boym (1614), Ivan Martinov (1771), and Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim (1888).

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