Ilya Mechnikov Ph.D.
Name: Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Birth: 1 May 1852, Petilla de Aragón, Spain
Death: 17 October 1934, Madrid, Spain
Affiliation: Madrid University, Madrid, Spain
Award: “in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system.”
Portion of Cash: 1/2
Education: Doctor of Medicine, Zaragoza, Madrid, 1873. Ph.D., University of Zaragoza, 1877.
Weak eyesight, heart troubles, difficulties in University lead to pessimism. Twice attempted suicide. Discovery of phagocytosis completely changed his outlook on life; abandoned his pessimistic philosophy and determined to find further proof of hypothesis.
Biography
Books
Images
Honoring Mechnikov’s Name
History of Discovery
Harassment
Biography
Life of Elie Mechnikoff by Olga Mechnikoff, Project Guenberg.
Elie Mechnikoff: Father of Natural Immunity by Siamon Gordon, Eur. J. Immunol. 2008. 38: 3257-3264.
Elie Mechnikoff: Father of Natural Immunity by Siamon Gordon, Eur. J. Immunol. 2008. 38: 3257-3264.
Title The Nature of Man: Studies in Optimistic Philosophy
Author: Elie Mechnikoff
Editor: Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell
Publisher: Putnam’s, 1905
Length: 309 pages
Later he established the destructive effect of certain white blood cells which he called phagocytes, on harmful materials in the bloodstream.
In 1884 Mechnikov announced a theory of phagocytosis, which formed a basis for the theory of immunity.
He also advocated consumption of lactic acid bacteria for the prevention and remedy of intestinal putrefaction.
Find in a library near you. In the OCLC Worldcat website search box, copy and paste the name of the laureate. Click. In the list of books, click the book of interest to you. Your computer will probably use a 5-digit zip code to locate its physical location. Scroll down to libraries near you which possess the book. Possibly there may be more than one person with the same name.