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Lysenko

American  
[li-seng-koh, li-syen-kuh] / lɪˈsɛŋ koʊ, lɪˈsjɛn kə /

noun

  1. Trofim Denisovich 1898–1976, Russian biologist and agronomist.


Lysenko British  
/ lɪˈsɛŋkəʊ, liˈsjɛnkə /

noun

  1. Trofim Denisovich (traˈfim dɪˈnisəvitʃ). 1898–1976, Russian biologist and geneticist

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“I can still continue training, but I have my own plans on how to lead my life and develop in other areas,” Lysenko said.

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

Trifonov did add an unannounced Russian-sounding Ukrainian encore by Mykola Lysenko.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2022

Lysenko, by contrast, argued that both environmental and somatic factors could also influence heredity.

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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