Ilya Mechnikov

Ilya Ilyich MechnikovIlya Ilyich Mechnikov (, , also known as Élie Metchnikoff)  (16 May 1845 – 16 July 1916) was a Ukrainian zoologist of (partly) Jewish descent (his mother was Jewish).Elie Metchnikoff, www.encyclopedia.com 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,Ovchinnikov, Dmitry A. 2008. Macrophages in the embryo and beyond: much more than just giant phagocytes. Genesis 46 (9): 447–62.  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)
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