Codice albumGBB-F-004854

Codice inventarioGBB-F-004854-0000

1913 ca, PARIS, FRANCE : The french-ukrainian professor Doctor Élie Metchnikoff (born Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, 1845 - 1916). Was a Russian zoologist best known for his pioneering research into the immune system. He and Paul Ehrlich were awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of their work on immunity ", He is also credited by some sources with coining the term gerontology in 1903, for the emerging study of aging and longevity. In 1882 he resigned from Odessa University due to political turmoils after the assassination of Alexander II. He went to Messina (Italy) to set up his private laboratory. He returned to Odessa as director of an institute set up to carry out Louis Pasteur's vaccine against rabies, but due to some difficulties left in 1888 and went to Paris to seek Pasteur's advice. Pasteur gave him an appointment at the Pasteur Institute, where he remained for the rest of his life.

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