Elizaveta Nikolaevna Levkovich (1900-1982) - Soviet scientist-virologist. Professor. Doctor of Medical Sciences (1944). Discoverer of tick-borne encephalitis (1937) and one of the developers of the vaccine.
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| Scientific field | Virology |
| Known as | tick-borne encephalitis discoverer (1937) |
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Biography
Born in the Smolensk province in a working class family. She graduated from high school (with a gold medal) and the Astrakhan Medical Institute (1925).
For a year she worked in Moscow as a trainee doctor at the hospital named after Botkin then - in the city of Grozny, the head of the epidemiological squad and laboratory assistant of the regional laboratory.
Since 1928, a graduate student, then a researcher at the Microbiological Institute of the People's Commissariat of Health of the USSR (Moscow).
In 1935, a virology laboratory was organized at the Mechnikov Institute. In this laboratory, E.N. Levkovich headed the department of neurotropic viruses in 1936.
Member of the Far Eastern expedition of the People's Commissariat of Health of the USSR in 1937 to study an unknown infectious disease of the central nervous system. Discoverer of tick-borne encephalitis (1937) and one of the developers of the vaccine. Laureate of the Stalin Prize of 1943.
From 1946 to 1970, she headed the laboratory of encephalitis, which was originally at the Institute of Virology. D. I. Ivanovsky of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, and since 1960 was transferred to the Institute for the Study of Poliomyelitis.
From 1970 to February 1982, a scientific consultant to the Institute.
Excellence in Health Care (1941), Honored Scientist of the RSFSR . She was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor , medals “For Labor Valor in the Great Patriotic War” and “For Valiant Labor”. For a complex of work on tick-borne encephalitis, she was awarded the D. I. Ivanovsky Prize (1960).
She was buried in the 5th section of the Vvedensky cemetery in Moscow.
Sources
- Questions of virology. USSR Ministry of Health, 1983
- http://www.poliomielit.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=109&Itemid=74
- Legendary expedition (to the 75th anniversary of the discovery of tick-borne encephalitis virus) http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/legendarnaya-ekspeditsiya-k-75-letiyu-otkrytiya-virusa-kleschevogo-entsefalita
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- Memoirs of Elizabeth Nikolaevna Levkovich [Text]: (founders of Russian medical virology) / otv. ed. V.V. Pogodina. - M.: Nauka, 2001 .-- 202 p. - ISBN 5-7281-0481-9 :
- In memory of Professor Elizabeth Nikolaevna Levkovich | Obituary | “Q. virusol. ", 1983, 28, No. 2, 255-256