Trofim Denisovich Lysenko was a Soviet agronomist. He rejected Mendelian genetics in favour of his own idiosyncratic, pseudoscientific ideas later termed Lysenkoism.
- Occupation
- biologist, geneticist, botanist, inventor
- Position held
- deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, Russian Republic, Ukrainian People's Republic, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Born
- September 17, 1898
- Died
- November 20, 1976