Word: zhebrak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Anton R. Zhebrak, 64, Soviet geneticist best known for his work on wheat hybridization, who was deposed in 1947 by Stalin's pet scientist Trofim Lysenko for insisting that hereditary characteristics cannot be modified by environment, but was since exonerated and accorded a glowing Pravda obituary ("A fine Communist, whose words never differed from his deeds"); in Moscow...