Timeline: Trofim Lysenko

Period: Sep 29, 1890 to Nov 20, 1980

Trofim's Life

Trofim's Life from the day he lived until the day he died, and his accomplishments

Sep 29, 1898

Trofim Lysenko Was born

sourceTrofim Lysenko was born on September 29, 1898 to peasant farmers Denis and Oksana Lysenko.

Mar 17, 1921

School

souceI n 1921 Trofim attened Poltava School of Horticulture.

Mar 17, 1925

School

source Trofim attended Kiev Institute Of Agriculture in 1925 where he earned a BS in Agronomy

Period: Mar 17, 1927 to Mar 17, 1964

success

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.

Mar 17, 1928

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.

Mar 17, 1930

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.

Mar 17, 1935

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.

Mar 17, 1940

Lysenko Work

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Trofim became director of the Institute of Genetics in 1940.

Period: Mar 17, 1940 to Mar 17, 1965

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Lysenko was the president of the Soviet Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Mar 17, 1941

Awards

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Lysenko earned the Stalin Prize

Mar 17, 1945

Books Lysenko wrote

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Lysenko published a book called "Heredity and Its Variablity"

Mar 17, 1948

Trofim's work

In 1948, Trofim's theories of Enviormentally acquired inheritence were formally outlawed.

Mar 17, 1948

Book Lysenko Wrote

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Lysenko worte another book called "The Science Of Biology Today"

Mar 17, 1950

Agricultural Practices

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By the 1950's, Lysenko's influence on Soviet agricultural practices had dramatically declined.

Mar 17, 1962

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.

Mar 17, 1964

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

Mar 17, 1964

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.