In 1912, Lev Zilber graduated from the Pskov provincial gymnasium with a silver medal and entered the natural department of the Faculty of physics and mathematics of St Petersburg Imperial University.
11 Facts About Lev Zilber
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Lev Zilber was taken prisoner by the whites, but successfully escaped.
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Lev Zilber led the suppression of an outbreak of plague in the villages of Bulutan and Hadrut in Nagorno-Karabakh in 1930.
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Lev Zilber received a copyright certificate for the invention, the certificate was recorded in the name of the "NKVD".
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Lev Zilber refused repeated offers to work on bacteriological weapons.
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Lev Zilber was occupied with basing and elaborating a viral theory of the origin of cancer.
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Lev Zilber received the Stalin Prize of the USSR in 1946; in 1967 he was posthumously awarded the State Prize of the USSR for discovering the pathogenicity of the virus of Rous sarcoma of fowl for other classes of animals.
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Lev Zilber was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and medals.
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On November 10,1966, Lev Zilber died suddenly in his office at the Gamaleya Research Institute and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
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Lev Zilber is the author of the scientific discovery "New properties of the pathogenicity of tumor viruses", which is listed in the State Register of Discoveries of the USSR.
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Lev Zilber is the author of more than 300 scientific articles published in domestic and foreign journals, as well as popular science articles and essays.