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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dmitri Ivanovsky is the 176th most popular biologist (down from 77th in 2019), the 365th most popular biography from Russia (down from 240th in 2019) and the 6th 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 176 out of 1,097. Before him are Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Joseph Dalton Hooker, John Ray, Norman Borlaug, Adolf Engler, and George Robert Gray. After him are Alexander Agassiz, Adam Afzelius, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Carl Woese, and Giovanni Sartori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Dmitri Ivanovsky ranks 34. Before him are Frank Wedekind, Rudolf Kjellén, Jakob von Uexküll, Branislav Nušić, Nellie Bly, and Princess Zorka of Montenegro. After him are Li Yuanhong, Alfred Redl, Leonard Hobhouse, Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Soh Jaipil, and Nicholas Marr. Among people deceased in 1920, Dmitri Ivanovsky ranks 26. Before him are John Reed, Jeanne Hébuterne, Benito Pérez Galdós, Eleanor H. Porter, Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria, and Venustiano Carranza. After him are Nectarios of Aegina, Max Klinger, Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Abraham Kuyper, Prince Joachim of Prussia, and Otto Gross.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Dmitri Ivanovsky ranks 365 out of 3,761. Before him are Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia (1876), Lila Kedrova (1918), Anton Arensky (1861), Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (1605), Pavel Nakhimov (1802), and Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817). After him are Jani Beg (1300), Nikolai Patrushev (1951), Vera Menchik (1906), Onfim (1250), Svetlana Savitskaya (1948), and Yuri Oganessian (1933).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Dmitri Ivanovsky ranks 6. Before him are Ivan Pavlov (1849), Alexander Oparin (1894), Nikolai Vavilov (1887), Vladimir Vernadsky (1863), and Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855). After him are Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), Edwin Klebs (1834), and Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799).

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