Olga Lepeshinskaya (biologist)
Olga Lepeshinskaya | |
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| File:Lepesinszkaja.jpg Olga Lepeshinskaya educating a little girl on the cover of the Hungarian edition (1954) of her book titled About the Sources of Life | |
| Born | August 18, 1871 |
| Died | October 2, 1963 (aged 92) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biology |
Olga Borisovna Lepeshinskaya (Template:Lang-ru) born as Protopopova (Template:Lang-ru) (1871–1963), was a Soviet biologist, academician, a personal protegée of Lenin, later Stalin, Trofim Lysenko and Alexander Oparin.
She based her career on claims to observe de novo emergence of life from non-cellular materials, and she was infamous for supporting such claims by fabricated proofs. Actually, she filmed the death and subsequent decomposition of cells, then projected these films reversed.
Literature
- Birstein, V. J., 2004. The Perversion of Knowledge: the True Story of Soviet Science. Westview Press.
- Gratzer, W. B. 2000. The Undergrowth of Science: Delusion, Self-Deception and Human Frailty. Oxford University Press
- Lepeshinskaya, O. B., 1954. The Origin of Cells from Living Substance. several editions in several languages.
- Zhinkin L. N. and Mikhaĭlov V. P., 1958. On "The New Cell Theory" Science, New Series, Vol. 128, No. 3317 (Jul. 25, 1958), pp. 182-186
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