What did dmitri ivanovsky discover
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Ivanovsky, Dmitri Iosifovich
(b. Gdov, Russia, 9 November 1864; d. U.S.S.R., 20 June 1920)
botany, microbiology.
Ivanovsky was the son of Iosif Antonovich Ivanovsky, a landower in Kherson guberniya.
How did dmitri ivanovsky discover viruses
He was educated at the Gymnasium of Gdov, then that of Str. Petersburg, from which he graduated as gold medalist in the spring of 1883. 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 1887 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 1888 and 1889 they studied this disease, called “Wildfire”, and concluded that it was not infect
