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  1. 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).

    • 15 July 1916 (aged 71), Paris, France
  2. Mar 26, 2024 · Élie Metchnikoff (born May 16, 1845, near Kharkov, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]—died July 16, 1916, Paris, France) 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 ...

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  3. May 9, 2018 · Élie Metchnikoff. The Russian physiologist and bacteriologist Élie Metchnikoff (1845-1916) is best noted for his phagocytic theory of immunity. He also made contributions to comparative pathology, evolutionary embryology, and microbiology. On May 15, 1845, Élie Metchnikoff was born in the Ukrainian village of Ivanovka.

  4. 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
  5. Feb 3, 2016 · Life. Metchnikoff was born in 1845 in a Ukrainian village near Kharkoff, now Kharkiv. His mother Emilia Lvovna was the daughter of the Jewish author and businessman Lev Nevakhovich, who had converted to the Lutheran faith, in response to persecution of Jews in Tsarist Russia. Elie remained close to his mother who had married a non-Jewish ...

    • Siamon Gordon
    • 10.1159/000443331
    • 2016
    • J Innate Immun. 2016 Apr; 8(3): 223-227.
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  7. Jun 16, 2016 · Elie Metchnikoff, the “father of natural immunity” was one of our forefathers along with Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch with their breakthroughs in bacteriology. Remembering Metchnikoff’s contributions and modern advances ( 34 ) is the best way to understand the important concepts of today’s immunology and trigger curiosity and ...

  8. Personal name as subject. Elie Metchnikoff. 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 speciali ….

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