Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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