BIOLOGIST

Élie Metchnikoff

1845 - 1916

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Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1845 – 15 July 1916), also spelled Élie Metchnikoff, was a zoologist from the Russian Empire of Moldavian noble ancestry best known for his research in immunology (study of immune systems) and thanatology (study of death). He and Paul Ehrlich were jointly awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of their work on immunity". Mechnikov was born in a region of the Russian Empire that is today part of modern-day Ukraine to a Moldavian noble father and a Ukrainian-Jewish mother, and later on continued his career in France. Given this complex heritage, five different nations and peoples lay claim to Metchnikoff. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Élie Metchnikoff is the 20th most popular biologist (down from 18th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 26th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Biologist.

Élie Metchnikoff was a Russian biologist who is most famous for the discovery of phagocytosis, the process by which white blood cells engulf and destroy bacteria and other foreign invaders.

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Among biologists, Élie Metchnikoff ranks 20 out of 1,097. Before him are Robert Brown, Georges Cuvier, George Beadle, Alfred Russel Wallace, Macfarlane Burnet, and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. After him are Thomas Hunt Morgan, Jules Bordet, Edward Tatum, Yoshinori Ohsumi, John Boyd Orr, and Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Élie Metchnikoff ranks 8. Before him are Alexander III of Russia, Ludwig II of Bavaria, Gabriel Lippmann, Georg Cantor, Gabriel Fauré, and George I of Greece. After him are Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Amadeo I of Spain, Ludwig III of Bavaria, Carl Spitteler, Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, and George Reid. Among people deceased in 1916, Élie Metchnikoff ranks 8. Before him are Grigori Rasputin, Jack London, Henryk Sienkiewicz, William Ramsay, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, and Ernst Mach. After him are Yuan Shikai, Charles Taze Russell, Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Odilon Redon, Franz Marc, and James Connolly.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Élie Metchnikoff ranks 25 out of 1,365. Before him are Joseph Conrad (1857), Helena Blavatsky (1831), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), Viktor Yushchenko (1954), and Leonid Kuchma (1938). After him are Ivan Mazepa (1639), Stanisław Leszczyński (1677), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Yulia Tymoshenko (1960), Leonid Kravchuk (1934), and Kliment Voroshilov (1881).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Ukraine

Among biologists born in Ukraine, Élie Metchnikoff ranks 1. After him are Trofim Lysenko (1898), Alexander Georg von Bunge (1803), Waldemar Haffkine (1860), Sergei Winogradsky (1856), Michał Boym (1614), Ludwik Fleck (1896), Ivan Martinov (1771), and Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim (1888).

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