Two latest Nobel Prize winners have Belarusian roots
Nobel laureates (above) and their Belarusian relatives - Longin Bohdan Ambros and Gertrude Gurevich
Belarusian roots were found in both scientists who were recently awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology.
As Euroradio reported, Viktor Embros' father came from the village of Dardzishki (now Dorhishki in the Ashmyany district of the Hrodna region). OSINT researcher Andrei Novikov found that in 1939, when he was 15 years old, Longin Bohdan Embros was sent to German camps, where he spent five years. After his release, he emigrated to the United States. Fluent in four living languages and Latin, he was able to get a job as a translator in 1946.
Novikov also discovered that the Nobel laureates' connection to Belarus did not end there. The grandmother of the second Nobel laureate, Gary Ravkan, is also of Belarusian descent. Gertrude Gurevich (photo below right) was born and lived in Brest.
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