Quick Facts

• 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

Best Known For

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