| 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 |