Talk:Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov
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- Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916), received Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1908 (jointly with Paul Ehrlich). His most notable contribution to discoveries about the immune response was his recognition of the phenomenon called phagocytosis - cells called phagocytes destroy invading organisms such as bacteria, the first line of defence against acute infection.
