NOUN
- Soviet geneticist whose adherence to Lamarck's theory of evolution was favored by Stalin (1898-1976)
How To Use Lysenko In A Sentence
- But the commission faces the problem that, as with Lysenko, many of China's fraud cases appear to stem from the inherent pressures that are built into the dynamics of Chinese science.
- Lysenko gave a deep rumbling laugh at his own joke.
- Stalin found Darwin too bourgeois, and encharged his henchman, pseudo-scientist Trofim Lysenko, with stamping out all evolution-based science. Dawkins Lashes Out
- If he was anything, Lysenko was a practised wheeler-dealer. COVER STORY
- Rebet sat in another chair, his legs crossed, turning a pencil endlessly between his fingers, a mannerism which irked Lysenko. COVER STORY
- In fact, whenever politics interfere, we see results akin to Lysenkoism.
- There are some disturbing echoes of the Lysenko story in a series of fraud cases that have emerged recently in China.
- Lysenko's main problem was to maintain his reputa - tion as a master of “agrobiology” (the term was his invention). Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- He was the only subordinate Lysenko occasionally patted on the back. COVER STORY
- As Trofim Denosovich Lysenko well knew, more than a little bashing is required to undermine the integrity of science.