deaths
November 20, 1976
Trofim Lysenko, Ukrainian-Russian biologist and agronomist (born 1898)
Trofim Lysenko
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko was a Soviet agronomist and scientist. He was a proponent of Lamarckism, and rejected Mendelian genetics in favour of his own idiosyncratic, pseudoscientific ideas later termed Lysenkoism.