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|name              = Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov
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|caption           = Ilya Mechnikov, 1908
|birth_date        = 16 May 1845
|birth_place       = near [[Kharkov]], [[Russian Empire]]
|death_date        = 16 July 1916
|death_place       = [[Paris]], [[France]]
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|field             = [[Zoology]], [[immunology]]
|work_institutions = [[Institut Pasteur]], [[Paris]], [[France]]
|alma_mater        = [[University of Kharkoff]]
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|prizes            = [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (1908)
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'''Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov'''<ref>Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov ({{lang-ru|Илья́ Ильи́ч Ме́чников}}, {{lang-uk|Ілля Ілліч Мечников}}, also known as Élie Metchnikoff)</ref>  (16 May 1845 – 16 July 1916) was a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-12-17|title=Народився Ілля Мечников, видатний учений-біолог, лауреат Нобелівської премії {{!}} Національна бібліотека України імені В. І. Вернадського|url=http://www.nbuv.gov.ua/node/4064|access-date=2022-12-11|archive-date=2018-12-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217110602/http://www.nbuv.gov.ua/node/4064|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> [[zoologist]] of (partly) [[Jewish]] descent (his mother was Jewish).<ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Elie_Metchnikoff.aspx Elie Metchnikoff, www.encyclopedia.com]</ref> He won the 1908 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]], with [[Paul Ehrlich]], for finding out how [[immune system|immunity]] fights [[disease]].

Mechnikov was a protozoologist who became better known for the discovery of [[macrophage]]s in 1882. He discovered how they dealt with germs by [[phagocytosis]]. Macrophages are found in virtually all [[Tissue (biology)|tissues]],<ref>Ovchinnikov, Dmitry A. 2008. Macrophages in the embryo and beyond: much more than just giant phagocytes. ''Genesis'' '''46''' (9): 447–62. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dvg.20417/abstract;jsessionid=FFBA7EACD8355574442290A443FFF2DD.f04t04]</ref> 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]])<ref name="nobel">{{cite web |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1908/mechnikov-bio.html |title=Biography of Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov |accessdate=2009-01-05 |publisher=The Nobel Foundation}}</ref><ref name="nobel-1908">{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1908/index.html| title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908|accessdate=2007-07-28| publisher=Nobel Foundation}}</ref>
== Related pages ==
*[[List of biologists]]

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