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Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (Russian: Илья Ильич Мечников; 15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1845 – 15 July 1916), also spelled Élie Metchnikoff, was a zoologist from the Russian Empire of Moldavian noble ancestry best known for his pioneering research in immunology (study of immune systems) and thanatology (study of death).
May 12, 2024 · Élie Metchnikoff was a Russian-born zoologist and microbiologist who received (with Paul Ehrlich) the 1908 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery in animals of amoeba-like cells that engulf foreign bodies such as bacteria—a phenomenon known as phagocytosis and a fundamental part.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Aug 1, 2016 · The year 2016 marks 100 years since the death of Élie Metchnikoff (1845–1916), the Russian zoologist who pioneered the study of cellular immunology and who is widely credited with the discovery...
- David M. Underhill, Siamon Gordon, Beat A. Imhof, Gabriel Núñez, Philippe Bousso
- 2016
May 9, 2018 · Paris, France, 15 July 1916) embryology, comparative anatomy, pathology, bacteriology, immunology. Elie was the youngest of the five children of Ilia Ivanovitch Metchnikoff and Emilia Nevahovna, the daughter of the Jewish writer Leo Nevahovna. His mother played an important role in the boy’s education and encouraged his scientific career.
Jun 16, 2016 · Keywords: Metchnikoff, innate immunity, infection, inflammation, macrophage, polarization, quantum biology. Go to: The Journey. Father of natural immunity ( 1 ), cellular ( 2 ), and modern immunology ( 3 ): these are the attributions used by many to recognize and disseminate the genius of Elie Metchnikoff (1845–1916).
- Fabrice Merien
- 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00125
- 2016
- Front Public Health. 2016; 4: 125.
Feb 3, 2016 · Abstract. The year 2016 marks the centenary of the death of Elie Metchnikoff, the father of innate immunity and discoverer of the significance of phagocytosis in development, homeostasis and disease. Through a series of intravital experiments on invertebrates and vertebrates, he described the role of specialised phagocytic cells, macrophages ...
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Jul 5, 2014 · Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov studied phagocytes, immune function, and starfish embryos in Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mechnikov adopted the French form of his name, Élie Metchnikoff, in the last twenty-five years of his life.
