The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908
Awarded on: 1908-10-29
"in recognition of their work on immunity"
Affiliations:
- Institut Pasteur – Paris, France
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov
Born: 1845-05-15 in Kharkov, Russian Empire (now Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Gender: male
Field: Ukrainian immunologist (1845–1916)
Biography
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, gallicised and known in Western sources as Élie Metchnikoff, was a zoologist from Ukraine 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".