Trofim Lysenko, Ukrainian-Russian biologist and agronomist (born 1898)

Trofim Lysenko

Soviet agronomist and pseudoscientist (1898–1976)

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.