Lysenko Controversy

Date:
1947-1950
Reference:
HALDANE/5/1/2/8
Part of:
Haldane Papers
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Correspondence and other material relating to debates amongst Western scientists about the controversial experimental research of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko. Lysenko was an agronomist and biologist whose theories relating to the inheritance of acquired characteristics dominated the field of biology in the Soviet Union in the 1930s and 1940s.

Publication/Creation

1947-1950

Physical description

50 items

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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Location of original

The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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  • A201