Élie Metchnikoff - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1908
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Élie Metchnikoff

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1908
in recognition of their work on immunity
Together with: Paul Ehrlich
Citizenship
France France Russian Empire Russian Empire
Languages
English, Russian, Romanian, French, German
date of birth
5/15/1845
place of birth
Kharkiv, Ivanivka
date of death
7/15/1916
place of death
Paris
Lived
71 years
member of
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 12/3/1883
  • S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy
    • start time: 12/29/1898
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 12/7/1902
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 8/24/1911
  • Academy of Sciences of Turin
    • start time: 5/15/1910
  • Royal Society of London
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Romanian Academy
employer
  • Pasteur Institute
    • start time: 1888
    • end time: 1916
  • Odesa University
  • Imperial St. Petersburg University
  • Imperial Novorossiia University
field of work
  • embryology
  • immunology
  • immunity
  • microbiology
  • pathology
  • gerontology
doctoral student
  • Jules Bordet
  • Waldemar Haffkine
  • Alexandre Besredka
  • Eugène Wollman
  • Józef Nusbaum-Hilarowicz
  • Lev Tarassevitch
occupation
  • physician
  • inventor
  • zoologist
  • chemist
  • biologist
  • physiologist
  • botanist
  • entomologist
  • immunologist
  • bacteriologist
educated at
  • University of Göttingen
  • Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Imperial Kharkov University
  • Imperial Kharkov University
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