Élie Metchnikoff Biography

Élie Metchnikoff biography

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NAME: Élie Metchnikoff
OCCUPATION: Biologist, Zoologist
BIRTH DATE: May 16, 1845
DEATH DATE: July 16, 1916
EDUCATION: University of Kharkov, University of St. Petersburg

PLACE OF BIRTH: Kharkiv, Ukraine
PLACE OF DEATH: Paris, France
Originally: Ilya Ilich Mechnikov

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Russian zoologist and microbiologist Élie Metchnikoff received a Nobel Prize for his discovery of phagocytosis, amoeba-like cells engulfing foreign bodies.

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Élie Metchnikoff was born May 16, 1845, near Kharkiv, Ukraine. 1882–1886, while studying the origin of digestive organs in bipinnaria starfish larvae, he observed that certain cells unconnected with digestion surrounded and engulfed carmine dye particles and splinters that he had introduced into the bodies of the larvae. He named the process phagocytosis.