page_title: Ilya Mechnikov
hierarchical_section_title: Ilya Mechnikov
caption_attribution_description: English: Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Nobel Prize in Physiology 1908
context_page_description: Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov was a Ukrainian-Russian zoologist of Jewish descent. He won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, with Paul Ehrlich, for finding out how immunity fights disease.
  Mechnikov was a protozoologist who became better known for the discovery of macrophages in 1882. He discovered how they dealt with germs by phagocytosis. Macrophages are found in virtually all tissues, and patrol for potential pathogens by amoeboid movement.
  He is also credited with coining the term gerontology in 1903, for the emerging study of ageing and longevity.
  He was born in Kharkov, Russian Empire
context_section_description: Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov  (16 May 1845 – 16 July 1916) was a Ukrainian-Russian zoologist of (partly) Jewish descent (his mother was Jewish). He won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, with Paul Ehrlich, for finding out how immunity fights disease.
  Mechnikov was a protozoologist who became better known for the discovery of macrophages in 1882. He discovered how they dealt with germs by phagocytosis. Macrophages are found in virtually all tissues, and patrol for potential pathogens by amoeboid movement.
  He is also credited with coining the term gerontology in 1903, for the emerging study of ageing and longevity.
  He was born in Kharkov (now Kharkiv), Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
caption: Ilya Mechnikov, 1908
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