Quote of the day
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to serve our country!
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