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BIOLOGIST

Dmitri Ivanovsky

1864 - 1920

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Dmitri Iosifovich Ivanovsky (alternative spelling Dmitrii or Dmitry Iwanowski; Russian: Дми́трий Ио́сифович Ивано́вский; 28 October 1864 – 20 June 1920) was a Russian botanist, the co-discoverer of viruses (1892), and one of the founders of virology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dmitri Ivanovsky has received more than 278,072 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Dmitri Ivanovsky is the 74th most popular biologist (down from 60th in 2019), the 277th most popular biography from Russia (down from 238th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Biologist.

Dmitri Ivanovsky is most famous for his discovery of the bacterium that causes tetanus.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Dmitri Ivanovsky ranks 74 out of 841. Before him are Alexander Oparin, John Franklin Enders, Lynn Margulis, Irwin Rose, Jules A. Hoffmann, and Roger Guillemin. After him are Daniel Bovet, Philip Miller, Tomas Lindahl, Julian Huxley, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, and Ulisse Aldrovandi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Dmitri Ivanovsky ranks 19. Before him are Eleftherios Venizelos, Miguel de Unamuno, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, Nellie Bly, Vilhelm Hammershøi, and Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach. After him are John Jacob Astor IV, Heinrich Wölfflin, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Frank Wedekind, Rudolf Kjellén, and Charles Cooley. Among people deceased in 1920, Dmitri Ivanovsky ranks 19. Before him are Jeanne Hébuterne, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, Anders Zorn, Svetozar Boroević, Rosalia Lombardo, and John Reed. After him are Inessa Armand, Nectarios of Aegina, Benito Pérez Galdós, Eleanor H. Porter, Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Venustiano Carranza.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Dmitri Ivanovsky ranks 277 out of 3,262. Before him are Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786), Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (1832), Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859), Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (1860), and Nikolai Yudenich (1862). After him are Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (1783), Andrei Grechko (1903), Vladimir Ashkenazy (1937), Pharnaces II of Pontus (-95), Kirill Meretskov (1897), and Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia (1843).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Dmitri Ivanovsky ranks 5. Before him are Ivan Pavlov (1849), Nikolai Vavilov (1887), Vladimir Vernadsky (1863), and Alexander Oparin (1894). After him are Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Vladimir Demikhov (1916), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), and Kliment Timiryazev (1843).

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