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Élie Metchnikoff

Died on July 2, 1916

110

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Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (15 May 1845 – 15 July 1916), gallicised and known in Western sources as Élie Metchnikoff, was a zoologist from the Russian Empire of Moldavian noble ancestry best known for his research in immunology (study of immune systems) and thanatology (study of death).

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