User:Stidmatt/Georgi Eliava

Georgi Eliava (Georgian: გიორგი ელიავა; January 1892, Sackhere, Georgia - 1937) was one of the first men who discovered Bacteriophages. He went to the University of Odessa which he was expelled for because "his great aunt had made a fortune in manganese mines." He studied in Geneva from 1912 to 1914. He was at home when World War I broke out. He enrolled then at the University of Moscow where he graduated in 1916. He became the head of the bacteriological lab in Trazon and was the director of the microbiolgical lab in Tbilisi in 1917. While there he discovered why cholera broke out every... He attended the Pasteur Institute which the Georgian government sent him to in 1918.