Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (,, Trochym Denysovyč Lysenko ) ( November 20, 1976 ) was a Soviet pseudoscientist of Ukrainian origin, who was director of Soviet biology under Joseph Stalin.

Lysenko, the son of Denis and Oksana Lysenko, was born to a peasant family in Karlivka, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine and attended the Kiev Agricultural Institute.

Lysenko coined the term " Jarovization " to describe a chilling process he used to make the seeds of winter cereals behave like spring cereals (" Jarovoe "); this term was translated as " vernalization " from the Latin " vernum " for western texts.

In 1932 Lysenko was given his own journal, The Bulletin of Vernalization, and it became the main outlet for touting emerging developments of Lysenkoist research.

One of the most celebrated of the earliest agricultural applications developed by Lysenko was a process of increasing the success of wheat crops by soaking the grain and storing the wet seed in snow to refrigerate over the winter (" vernalization ").

Lysenko was viewed as someone who could deliver practical methods more rapidly, and with superior results.

Lysenko himself spent much time denouncing academic scientists and geneticists, claiming that their isolated laboratory work was not helping the Soviet people.

In regards to the triffids ' creation, some editions of the novel make brief mention of the theories of the Soviet agronomist and would-be biologist Trofim Lysenko ; eventually thoroughly debunked, Lysenkoism at the time of the novel's creation was still being defended by some prominent international Stalinists.

Another post-war activity was Huxley's attack on the Soviet politico-scientist Trofim Lysenko, who had espoused a Lamarckian heredity, made unscientific pronouncements on agriculture, used his influence to destroy classical genetics in Russia and to move genuine scientists from their posts.

In 1940, the leading botanical geneticist Nikolai Vavilov was arrested, and Lysenko replaced him as director of the Institute of Genetics.

Lysenko ended his days in a Soviet mental hospital, and Vavilov's reputation was posthumously restored in 1955.

His initially favourable view was changed by his growing awareness of Stalin's murderous repression, and the Lysenko affair.

A form of Lamarckism was revived in the Soviet Union of the 1930s when Trofim Lysenko promoted Lysenkoism which suited the ideological opposition of Joseph Stalin to genetics.

Muller and much of the Russian genetics community did what they could to oppose Trofim Lysenko and his Larmarckian evolutionary theory, but Muller was soon forced to leave the Soviet Union after Stalin read a translation of his eugenics book and was " displeased by it, and ... ordered an attack prepared against it.

Lysenkoism, or Lysenko-Michurinism was the centralized political control exercised over genetics and agriculture by Trofim Lysenko and his followers.

Lysenko was the director of the Soviet Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Lysenkoism was built on theories of the heritability of acquired characteristics that Lysenko named " Michurinism ".

When Lysenko began his fieldwork in the Soviet Union of the 1930s, the agriculture of the Soviet Union was in a massive crisis due to rapid changes in switching from an agrarian-based economy towards an industrial economy leading to mismanagement of collective farms.

Lysenko was admitted into the hierarchy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and was put in charge of agricultural affairs.

Lysenko continued to research and transcribe the repertoire of other kobzars from other regions such as Opanas Slastion from Poltava and Pavlo Bratytsia from Chernihiv.

One of his principal sources was the kobzar Ostap Veresai ( after whom Lysenko later named his son ).

* 1842 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer ( d. 1912 )

* October 24 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer ( b. 1842 )

* March 10 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer ( d. 1912 )

* March 10 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer ( d. 1912 )

The first category is closely tied with the Ukrainian national school of music spearheaded by Mykola Lysenko.

Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko (, – ) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist.

During his time at Kiev University, Lysenko collected and arranged Ukrainian folksongs, which were published in seven volumes.

In order to improve his orchestration and composition skills the young Lysenko traveled to St. Petersburg where he took orchestration lessons from Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov in the mid 1870s, but his fervent Ukrainian national position and disdain for Great Russian autocracy retarded his career.

For his opera libretti Lysenko insisted on using only the Ukrainian language.

In his later years, Lysenko raised funds to open a Ukrainian School of Music.

In this work Lysenko demonstrated the way in which Ukrainian melodic material differs from Russian analogues by its unique use and approach to chromaticism ( something that was censored out in Soviet republications ).

She also was influenced by well-known composer Mykola Lysenko, and famous Ukrainian dramatist and poet Mykhailo Starytsky.

To date the only notated examples of torban music recorded are a group of songs from the repertoire of Franz Widort collected by Ukrainian composer and ethnographer Mykola Lysenko and published in the " Kievskaya Starina " journal in 1892, and a collection of songs by Tomasz Padura published in Warsaw in 1844.

* Mykola Lysenko ( 1842 – 1912 ), Ukrainian composer, pianist and music educator

The story was the basis of an opera by Ukrainian composer, Mykola Lysenko.

Criticism of Lysenko was denounced as ' bourgeois ' or ' fascist ', and analogous ' non-bourgeois ' theories also flourished in other fields in the Soviet academy at this time ( see Japhetic theory ; socialist realism ).

Nikita Khrushchev, who claimed to be an expert in agricultural science, also valued Lysenko as a great scientist, and the taboo on genetics continued ( but all geneticists were released or rehabilitated posthumously ).

* Loren Graham, " Stalinist Ideology and the Lysenko Affair ," in Science in Russia and the Soviet Union ( New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993 ).

* David Joravsky, The Lysenko Affair ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970 ).

* Valery N. Soyfer, Lysenko and the Tragedy of Soviet Science ( New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1994 ).

Mykola Lysenko ( 1869 ).

Lysenko began his campaign in 1928, as an unknown agronomist who " invented " a new agricultural technique, vernalization ( using humidity and low temperatures to make wheat grow in spring ).

Nikita Khrushchev also valued Lysenko as a great scientist, and the taboo on genetics continued through the 1950s ( but all geneticists were released or rehabilitated posthumously ).