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Élie Metchnikoff

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".

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science · Russian immunologist (1845–1916) · biologist · immunologist · zoologist · chemist · inventor · physician · physiologist · entomologist · botanist · bacteriologist · also Élie Metchnikoff, Mechnikov, Ilya Metschnikoff, Elias Metschnikoff, Ilya Mecnikov, Metchnikoff

Born 3 May 1845 · Died 2 July 1916 · Q172254

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Jun 1916Award
Won Albert Medal (1916).
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Jun 1913Award
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1913).
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1916· 3 entries

Jul 2, 1916Documented record86% confidence

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Died 1916-07-02.

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Jun 15, 1916Documented record84% confidence

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Won Albert Medal (1916).

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“The duration of the life of men may be considerably increased. It would be true progress to go back to the simple dishes of our ancestors. … Progress would consist in simplifying many sides of the lives of civilised people.”

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1913· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1913Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1913).

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1911· 1 entry

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Merged with the Saint Petersburg State Medical Academy of Postgraduate Studies in 2011 to become the North-Western State Medical University named after I

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1908· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1908Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1908).

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A pioneer researcher of immunity on the ANU - Museum of the Jewish People

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1906· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1906Documented record84% confidence

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Won Copley Medal (1906).

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1903· 1 entry

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For the emerging study of aging and longevity

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1896· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1896Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1896).

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1895· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1895Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1895).

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1888· 1 entry

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And went to Paris to seek Pasteur's advice

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1887· 1 entry

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Observed that leukocytes isolated from the blood of various animals were attracted towards certain bacteria

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1882· 2 entries

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First demonstrated the process when he inserted small citrus thorns into starfish larvae, then found unusual cells surrounding the thorns

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1882Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Resigned from Odessa University due to political turmoil after the assassination of Alexander II

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1880· 1 entry

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Olga suffered from severe typhoid and this led to his second suicide attempt

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1879· 1 entry

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And became involved in the biological control of insect pests through his student Isaak Krasilschik

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1875· 1 entry

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Married his student Olga Belokopytova

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1870· 1 entry

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Returned to Odessa to take up the appointment of Titular Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy

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1868· 1 entry

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Where he experienced a worse professional environment

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1867· 2 entries

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With Alexander Kovalevsky on the basis of their doctoral research

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Returned to Russia to receive his doctorate with Alexander Kovalevsky from the University of Saint Petersburg

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1865· 1 entry

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While at Giessen, he discovered intracellular digestion in flatworm, and this study influenced his later works

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1864· 1 entry

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Traveled to Germany to study marine fauna on the small North Sea island of Heligoland

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1862· 1 entry

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To study biology at the University of Würzburg, but the German academic session would not start by the end of the year

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1856· 1 entry

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Metchnikoff entered the Kharkov Lycée, where he developed his interest in biology

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1845· 1 entry

May 3, 1845Documented record86% confidence

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Born 1845-05-03.

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