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Élie Metchnikoff

Élie Metchnikoff
Élie Metchnikoff, Russian zoologist (d. 1916)

Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, also spelled Élie Metchnikoff, was a zoologist from the Russian Empire of Moldavian noble ancestry best known for his pioneering 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".

15 May 1845

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