Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Trofim Lysenko
Born: September 29, 1898
Died: November 20, 1976 (aged 78)
Bio: Trofim Denisovich Lysenko was a Soviet agrobiologist. As a student Lysenko found himself interested in agriculture, where he worked on a few different projects, one involving the effects of temperature variation on the life-cycle of plants.
Known for:
- Heredity and its variability (1945)
- The Situation in Biological Science
- Soil Nutrition of Plants
- Agrobiology