The Death of Anton Chekhov, Told in Proteins | Science History Institute

“Chekhov, the author of theatrical masterpieces including The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, and The Three Sisters, had suffered from tuberculosis for two decades before his death in 1904. His biographers suspected he died, at age 44, of tuberculosis-related complications. But it would be 100 years and take the pioneering work of a team of 21st-century chemists to conclusively demonstrate what exactly killed the famed author.”