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Élie Metchnikoff

Also known as Mechnikov, Ilya Metschnikoff, Elias Metschnikoff, Elie Metchnikoff, Ilja Iljitsch Metschnikov, Ilya Mecnikov, Ilya Mechnikov

Russian-French immunologist, embryologist, biologist

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Élie Metchnikoff was a Russian-French scientist who made important contributions to immunology, embryology, and general biology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work helped establish how the body's immune system functions, laying crucial groundwork for modern medicine and our understanding of how organisms defend themselves against disease.

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Born: 15 May 1845
Died: 15 July 1916
Works: 83

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Entgegnung auf die Erwiderung des Herrn Prof. Leuckart in Giessen
Embryologie der Dipteren
Etudes sur la nature humaine
Sur les insectes diptères
Études expérimentales sur la syphilis

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Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1845 – 15 July 1916), 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 (study of immune systems) and thanatology (study of death). He and Paul Ehrlich were jointly awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of their work on immunity".

Mechnikov was born in a region of the Russian Empire that is today part of modern-day Ukraine to a Moldavian noble father and a Ukrainian-Jewish mother. He later moved to France. Given this complex heritage, five different nations and peoples lay claim to Metchnikoff. Despite having a mother of Jewish origin, he was baptized Russian Orthodox, although he later became an atheist.