Dmitri Ivanovsky
Russian virologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dmitri Iosifovich Ivanovsky was a Russian botanist, the co-discoverer of :viruses , and one of the founders of virology. Life Ivanovsky was born in the village of Nizy, Gdov Uyezd. He studied at the University of Saint Petersburg under Andrei Famintsyn in 1887, when he was sent to Ukraine and Bessarabia to investigate a tobacco disease causing great damage to plantations located there at the time. Three years later, he was assigned to look into a similar disease occurrence of tobacco plants, this time raging in the Crimea region. He discovered that both incidents of disease were caused by an extremely minuscule infectious agent, capable of permeating porcelain Pasteur-Chamberland filters, something which bacteria could never do. He described his findings in an article and a dissertation . Then he worked at the Imperial University of Warsaw and at Donskoy University in Rostov on Don.
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