Élie Metchnikoff was a pioneer in the field of immunology and won the 1908 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discoveries of how the body protects itself from disease-causing organisms. Later in life, he became interested in the...

Élie Metchnikoff was a pioneer in the field of immunology and won the 1908 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discoveries of how the body protects itself from disease-causing organisms. Later in life he became interested in the...

The Russian physiologist and bacteriologist Élie Metchnikoff (1845-1916) is best noted for his phagocytic theory of immunity. He also made contributions to comparative pathology, evolutionary embryology, and microbiology. On May 15, 1845,...

1845-1916 Russian Biologist, Bacteriologist and Pathologist Noble laureate Elie Metchnikoff made significant contributions to biology and medicine. He won the Nobel Prize in medicine (with Paul Ehrlich) in 1908 for his theory of immunity. Metchnikoff...

1845-1916 Russian embryologist and bacteriologist who studied phagocytosis and successfully promoted the theory of cellular immunity. He applied the term "phagocytes" to the cells that removed unnecessary tissues during larval...

Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (Илья Ильич Мечников, also known as Elie Metchnikoff, May 16, 1845, Russian Empire – July 16, 1916, Paris) was a Russian microbiologist best remembered for his pioneering research into the immune system....

ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV SCULPTURECENTER/ SEAN KELLY GALLERY Installation artists may be the last social optimists, for their work depends entirely on the willing participation of viewers they haven't met and will never meet. When installations work, it is as a dialogue...

ILYA GERSHEVITCH was an exceptionally gifted scholar who devoted his life to the languages of Iran and Central Asia, solving innumerable linguistic and historical riddles by a combination of keen intellect and insatiable curiosity. He was born in Zurich in 1914, the son...