Szczepan Pieniążek, Edmund Malinowski, and Lysenkoism in Poland
Szczepan Pieniążek, Edmund Malinowski, and Lysenkoism in Poland

Summary/Abstract: This article’s title describes the propagation of T. D. Lysenko’s Michurinist doctrine, in terms of its impact on the careers of two members of the community of Polish biologists. Michurinism was introduced at a conference in Warsaw in 1949 and served as the official scientific theory of evolution in Polish biology until 1956. Szczepan Pieniążek was among the foremost supporters of Lysenko in Poland and directed an institute in Skierniewice that was the center of Michurinist research in Poland. Meanwhile, the career of Edmund Malinowski, one of the foremost figures in Polish biology, suffered for his refusal to adhere in his research to the Michurinist doctrine.

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