Ilya Mechnikov (person)

with Paul Ehrlich "in recognition of their work on immunity" --- http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/

• Born:Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov; May 16, 1845
• Birthplace:Kharkoff, Russia
• Residence: France
• Education: University of Kharkoff; University of Giessen; University of Göttingen; and the Munich Academy
• Family: Ludmilla Feodorovitch (first wife died from TB); Olga (2nd wife)
• Field of Study: Natural sciences
• Affiliations: Titular Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy; Pasteur Institute
• Died: July 16, 1916
• Publications: Immunity in infectious diseases, 1901
• Distinctions: honorary D. Sc. of the University of Cambridge; Copley Medal of the Royal Society; Member of the Swedish Medical Society
• Major contribution: a founder of the science of immunity

"He was a Darwinian scientist who had theories of cellular immunity, applications of phagocytic theory and the biological doctrine of inflammation... he established the destructive effect of certain white blood cells, which he called phagocytes, on harmful materials in the bloodstream. In 1884 Mechnikov announced a theory of phagocytosis, which formed a basis for the theory of immunity." --- http://www.discoveringbooks.com/upp2/0898756227AMUS1154.shtml

1907 - Alphonse Laveran | 1908 Paul Ehrlich