Trofim Lysenko
Trofim Lysenko
Trofim Denisovich Lysenkothe son of Denis and Oksana Lysenko, was born into a peasant family in Karlivka, Poltava Governorateon September 29, 1898. He later attended the Kiev Agricultural Institute, where he found himself interested in agriculture. Here he worked on a few different projects, one involving the effects of temperature variation on the life-cycle of plants. This later led him to consider how he might use this work to convert winter wheat into spring wheat. This process became known as...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth29 September 1898
CountryRussian Federation
Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea.