Quote of the day
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
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