1845
Élie Metchnikoff, Russian zoologist (died 1916)
Élie Metchnikoff, Russian zoologist (died 1916)
Élie Metchnikoff, Russian zoologist (died 1916)
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian immunologist (1845–1916)
- Born
- 1845
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, gallicised and known in Western sources as Élie Metchnikoff, was a zoologist from the Russian Empire of Moldavian noble ancestry best known for his research in immunology and thanatology. He and Paul Ehrlich were jointly awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of their work on immunity".