How did dmitri ivanovsky discover viruses...
Ivanovsky, Dmitri Iosifovich
(b. Gdov, Russia, 9 November ; d. U.S.S.R., 20 June )
botany, microbiology.
Ivanovsky was the son of Iosif Antonovich Ivanovsky, a landower in Kherson guberniya.
Dmitri ivanovsky discovery
He was educated at the Gymnasium of Gdov, then that of Str. Petersburg, from which he graduated as gold medalist in the spring of In August of that yearhe enrolled at St. Petersburg University in the natural science department of the physics and mathematics faculty.
Among his teachers were I. M. Sechenov, N. E. Vvedensky, D. I. Mendeleev, V. V. Dokuchaev, A. N. Beketov, and A. S. Famintsyn—the leading representatives of contemporary Russian science.
In Ivanovsky and V. V. Polovtsev, a fellow student in the department of plant physiology, were commissioned to investigate the causes of a disease which had struck the tobacco plantations of the Ukraine and Bessarabia.
During and they studied this disease, called “Wildfire”, and concluded that it was not infectious and arose from an abrupt