LYSENKO 226 



Office: Department of Machine Strength and Dynamics 



Leningrad Polytechnical Institute 



Leningrad, USSR 

 Residence: Polytechnical Road 3; app. 90 



Leningrad K-64, USSR 



LYSENKO, TRQFIM DENISOV^ICH (Biologist and Agriculturist) 

 T. D. Lysenko was born September 17, 1898. He graduated 

 from Uman School of Horticulture in 1921 and in 1925 from 

 Kiev Institute of Agriculture. He worked on an experimental 

 selection station in Gandzha (now Kirovobad), Azerbaidzhan 

 S.S.R. then at the All- Union Genetic Institute in Odessa. From 

 1938 to 1956 he was President of the Lenin All-Union Academy 

 of Agricultural Sciences, and was elected a Member of the 

 Presidium in 1960. In 1940 Lysenko was made Director of the 

 Genetics Institute of the U. S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. He has 

 been an Academician of the Ukrainian S.S.R. Academy of Sci- 

 ences since 1934 and of the U. S.S.R. Academy of Sciences since 

 1939. In 1935 he became an Active Member of the Lenin All- 

 Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Lysenko was Deputy 

 to the Supreme Soviet of the U. S.S.R., first through fifth convo- 

 cations. In March 1962, he was again elected deputy from the 

 Ukrainian SSR to the Supreme Soviet. In 1941, 1943, and 1949 

 he was awarded Stalin Prizes and in 1945 he was a Hero of 

 Socialist Labor. 



Lysenko works are in the following fields: heredity and its 

 variability, individual development of organisms, intra- and 

 inter -species relationships, plant nutrition. Lysenko enunciated 

 a theory on stagewise development of plants. He proposed a 

 method of seed treatment (vernalization) before sowing and of 

 cotton stamping. He developed a number of new grains (vernal- 

 ized wheat "lyutestsens 1173," "odesskaya 13," barley ^'odes- 

 skii 14," cotton "odesskii 1." Based on a hypothesis of the con- 

 nection between an organism and the surrounding medium he 

 attempted to develop methods of direct changes of organic 

 nature in agricultural plants. He attempted to convert vernal- 

 ized non-wintering farm crops into cold-resistant winter crops. 

 He proposed a method of soil fertilization by organic -mineral 

 mixtures. While working on questions of vegetative and sexual 

 hybridization Lysenko formed a number of theories on heredity 

 and its variability. In addition to finding rules for individual 

 development of plants, Lysenko also studied the laws of species' 

 formation and intra- and interspecies relationships. After 

 studying relationships among individual organisms within a 



