Lysenko
Americannoun
noun
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He thought of the program he had planned back in December: the Taras Bulba Overture by Mykola Lysenko, a concerto by Edvard Grieg and César Franck’s Symphony in D Minor.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2025
At that moment, Lysenko was at the Olympic base near the capital.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 16, 2023
The idea was to go directly from this children’s music into an elegy by Lysenko — a piano piece, in a new orchestral version.
From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2022
Perhaps the most notorious incident involved Trofim Lysenko, a biologist and agronomist who abused his power as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2022
But Lysenko convinced himself and his Soviet bosses that he had “retrained” the crops through exposure and conditioning alone and thereby altered their inherent characteristics.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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