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Zinaida Yermolyeva

1898 - 1974

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Zinaida Vissarionovna Yermolyeva (Russian: Зинаида Виссарионовна Ермольева; 24 October [O.S. 12 October] 1898 – 2 December 1974) was a Soviet microbiologist of Don Cossack origin most notable for producing penicillin for the Soviet military during World War II. She was a member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences at the time of her death. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Zinaida Yermolyeva is the 978th most popular biologist (down from 836th in 2019), the 2,169th most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,027th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Russian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Zinaida Yermolyeva ranks 978 out of 1,097Before her are Yasutomi Nishizuka, James Chapin, Alice Eastwood, Sydney Parkinson, Miriam Rothschild, and Johann Gottfried Zinn. After her are Dukinfield Henry Scott, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw, Lancelot Hogben, Anne McLaren, Alister Hardy, and Ludwig Carl Christian Koch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Zinaida Yermolyeva ranks 265Before her are Konstantinos Dovas, Antonio Urdinarán, Domingo Acedo, Scott O'Dell, H. A. Rey, and Boško Simonović. After her are Arthur Legat, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Blind Willie McTell, J. Slauerhoff, Benno von Arent, and Jadwiga Smosarska. Among people deceased in 1974, Zinaida Yermolyeva ranks 226Before her are Giuseppe Moro, Jimmy Hogan, Leon Shamroy, Eduardo Santos, Charles Rosher, and Richard Lawrence. After her are Cornelius Lanczos, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Sverre Hansen, Östen Undén, Katharine Cornell, and Guy Simonds.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Zinaida Yermolyeva ranks 2,169 out of 3,761Before her are Ian Nepomniachtchi (1990), Igor Dmitriev (1927), Nikolay Anikin (1932), Andrey Petrov (1930), Aleksandr Domogarov (1963), and Fyodor Bondarchuk (1967). After her are Yuri Samarin (1819), Sofia Muratova (1929), Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin (1953), Igor Lediakhov (1968), Mikhail Yefremov (1963), and Vasily Belov (1932).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Zinaida Yermolyeva ranks 26Before her are Alexei Fedchenko (1844), David Keilin (1887), Nikolay Drozdov (1937), Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (1869), Ivan Lepyokhin (1740), and Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky (1900).