Quote of the day
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
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