Lysenko
Americannoun
noun
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The best example may be the reign of Trofim Lysenko, who gained power over the entire scientific establishment of Soviet Russia beginning with Stalin’s regime and continuing under Nikita Khrushchev.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024
During the most difficult periods, Lysenko didn’t stop training.
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
By treating wheat strains with such “shock therapy,” Lysenko argued that he could make the plants flower more vigorously in the spring and yield higher bounties of grain through the summer.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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