| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1908 |
| Number: | 32 - 0 |
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Nominee:
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| Name: | Élie Metchnikoff |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1845 |
| Year, Death: | 1916 |
| Profession: | director |
| University: | Pasteur Institute (Institut Pasteur) |
| City: | Paris |
| Country: | FRANCE (FR) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908 |
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| Motivation: | Numerous discoveries, as exemplified in the following works:
"Leçons sur la pathologie comparée de l´inflammation", Paris 1892 (theory of phagocytosis);
"l´Immunité dans les maladies infectueuses", Paris 1902 (work on syphilis);
"études sur la natur humaine", Pris 1903 ("studies of human nature"). |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | N J Tchistovitch |
| Profession: | prof infectious disease and bacteriology |
| City: | St Petersburg |
| Country: | U.S.S.R. (SU) now RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU) |
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