Authorised form of name | Metchnikoff; Elias (1845 - 1916) |
Other forms of name | Elie |
Mecznikow, Elias |
Other forms of surname | Ilya Illyich Mechnikov |
Dates | 1845 - 1916 |
Place of birth | Ivanovka, Kharkov Province, Russia |
Date of birth | 15 or 16 May 1845 |
Place of death | Paris, France |
Date of death | 15/07/1916 |
Research field | Embryology |
Comparative anatomy |
Pathology |
Bacteriology |
Immunology |
Activity | Medals and prizes: Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1908 |
Membership category | Foreign Member |
Date of election | 12/12/1895 |
RSActivity | Medals and prizes: Copley Medal 1906 |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DSB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc Series B 1915-1917 vol 89 pp li-lix signed by E R L References: Anne Cooke, 'From Microbes to Man. Ulf Lagerkvist, Pioneers of microbiology and the Nobel Prize' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 234-236 Notes: DSB gives birth date as 16 May 1845 |
Code | NA5262 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
NLB/20/285 | Copy telegram from Sir Michael Foster, to Elias Metchnikoff, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Institut Pasteur, Paris | [13 March 1900] |
NLB/33/773 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Elias Metchnikoff, Foreign Member, Royal Society | 1 November 1906 |
NLB/34/149 | Copy letter from Francis Darwin, to Professor Elias Metschnikoff, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Institut Pasteur, Paris | 4 December 1906 |
NLB/53/527 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Edwin] Ray Lankester, K.C.B., FRS | 24 October 1916 |
EC/1895/24 | Metchnikoff, Elias: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 17 December 1895 |