Élie Metchnikoff (born Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, 1845 to 1916) was a zoologist from the Russian Empire best known for his research in immunology. In 1882 he discovered phagocytosis, a process of immunity, and the cell responsible for it, the phagocyte, specifically the macrophage, which became the foundation of the concept of cell-mediated immunity. He shared the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Ehrlich for their work on immunity. After leaving Russia he worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris for the rest of his life, where he also developed early ideas about ageing, advocated lactic acid bacteria for a long and healthy life and coined the term gerontology in 1903.
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was a zoologist from the Russian Empire
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15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1845
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was a zoologist from the Russian Empire
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he was baptized Russian Orthodox
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He and Paul Ehrlich were jointly awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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was a zoologist from the Russian Empire
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best known for his research in immunology
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Pasteur gave him an appointment at the Pasteur Institute, where he remained for the rest of his life.
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best known for his research in immunology
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