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Born October 27, 1855 • Russia
Died June 7, 1935 (aged 79) • Michurinsk • Russia
Subjects Of Study hybridization • inheritance of acquired characteristics

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American entrepreneur
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
“Father of the green revolution” in India
M.S. Swaminathan
Indian scientist
Trofim Lysenko
Trofim Lysenko
Soviet biologist and agronomist
Edward Murray East
American scientist
Kim Soon-Kwon
South Korean agricultural scientist
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey
American botanist
Elvin Charles Stakman
American plant pathologist
Sewall Wright, 1965
Sewall Wright
American geneticist
Jethro Tull, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Royal Society for Agriculture, London
Jethro Tull
British agronomist and inventor
John Lindley, engraving, 1865, after a photograph
John Lindley
British botanist
Francisco de Paula Marín
Spanish horticulturalist
Sir George Stapledon
English agriculturalist
Josef Gottlieb Kölreuter
German botanist
Sir John Bennet Lawes, 1st Baronet
English agronomist
George Harrison Shull
American botanist
Thomas Andrew Knight
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John Bartram
American naturalist
Jean Étienne de Boré
American agriculturalist
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American horticulturalist