RUSSIAN NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS IN PHYSIOLOGY AND MEDICINE AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD SCIENCE
The article describes the life and scientific activities of four laureates of the most prestigious prize in the scientific world -the Nobel Prize, representatives of Russia. Moreover, Ragnar Arthur Granit and Zelman Abraham Waxman, who are rightfully considered natives of the Russian Empire, made their main discoveries far beyond the borders of their historical homeland. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov and Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov-created mainly in Russia and for its benefit. The authors succinctly and accurately describe the difficult historical years in which these scientists had to live and work, whose inquisitive mind, an irresistible thirst for knowledge, for everything new and unknown, made them truly great. The article logically concludes how the ideas of these four created a theoretical basis and laid a solid foundation, which is used by doctors around the world to this day, and advanced the world medical science far ahead.