Metchnikoff Elie
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Metchnikoff
(mĕch′nĭ-kôf′, myĕch′nĭ-kəf), Élie Originally Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov 1845-1916. Russian zoologist. He shared a 1908 Nobel Prize for work in immunology, especially the process of phagocytosis.
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