BIOLOGIST

Élie Metchnikoff

1845 - 1916

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Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (Russian: Илья Ильич Мечников; 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 pioneering 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Élie Metchnikoff has received more than 562,281 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). Élie Metchnikoff is the 18th most popular biologist (up from 24th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 36th 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

Among biologists, Élie Metchnikoff ranks 18 out of 1,097. Before him are James Watson, Karl Landsteiner, Alfred Russel Wallace, Francis Crick, Thomas Hunt Morgan, and Thomas Henry Huxley. After him are Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Luc Montagnier, Robert Brown, Richard Dawkins, Maria Sibylla Merian, and Conrad Gessner.

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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, Georg Cantor, George I of Greece, Gabriel Lippmann, and Gabriel Fauré. After him are Amadeo I of Spain, Carl Spitteler, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Ludwig III of Bavaria, Abai Qunanbaiuly, and Nikola Pašić. Among people deceased in 1916, Élie Metchnikoff ranks 9. Before him are Jack London, Ernst Mach, Yuan Shikai, Henryk Sienkiewicz, William Ramsay, and Klas Pontus Arnoldson. After him are Franz Marc, Odilon Redon, Umberto Boccioni, Richard Dedekind, Henry James, and Sholem Aleichem.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Élie Metchnikoff ranks 26 out of 1,365. Before him are Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Stanisław Leszczyński (1677), Stefania Turkewich (1898), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Viktor Yushchenko (1954), and Leonid Kuchma (1938). After him are Ludwig von Mises (1881), Kliment Voroshilov (1881), Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916), Vaslav Nijinsky (1889), Edgar de Wahl (1867), and Sergei Korolev (1906).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Ukraine

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

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