Although there are no Nobel Prize winners among citizens of modern independent Ukraine, this does not mean that the highest scientific award has never been given to Ukrainians. Who among Nobel laureates had Ukrainian roots? Here are five scientists who had Ukrainian origins and won the Nobel Prize. Ilya Mechnikov (Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1908) Ilya Mechnikov, a prominent bacteriologist and immunologist, was born on May 15, 1845, in the village of Ivanivka, Kharkiv region. He spent more than 40 years of his life in Ukraine, where he studied and made his first scientific discoveries. His key co…