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 294,402 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Dmitri Ivanovsky is the 77th most popular biologist (down from 74th in 2019), the 240th most popular biography from Russia (up from 276th 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 77 out of 1,097. Before him are Ferdinand Cohn, Herman Boerhaave, Max Theiler, Ernst Mayr, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, and Svante Pääbo. After him are Bernard Katz, Philip Miller, Ibn al-Baitar, Elizabeth Blackburn, Archibald Hill, and Charles Lucien Bonaparte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Dmitri Ivanovsky ranks 15. Before him are Hermann Minkowski, Eleftherios Venizelos, Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, Miguel de Unamuno, and Alfred Hermann Fried. After him are Rudolf Kjellén, Heinrich Wölfflin, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Jules Renard, and Frank Wedekind. Among people deceased in 1920, Dmitri Ivanovsky ranks 18. Before him are Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Max Bruch, Jeanne Hébuterne, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, Inessa Armand, and Svetozar Boroević. After him are Rosalia Lombardo, John Reed, Nectarios of Aegina, Benito Pérez Galdós, Venustiano Carranza, and Max Klinger.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Dmitri Ivanovsky ranks 240 out of 3,761. Before him are Daniel of Moscow (1261), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Gerhard Barkhorn (1919), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), Ivan Krylov (1769), and Leonid Kantorovich (1912). After him are Boris Nemtsov (1959), Pitirim Sorokin (1889), Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839), Arthur Adamov (1908), Viktor Zubkov (1941), and Vasily Blyukher (1889).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

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

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