Willkommen im virtuellen Museum der Wissenschaft

kultur

physik

medizin

chemie

nostalg

links

Eingang

 

Ilja Iljitsch  Metschnikov

15th of April 1845 - 15th of August 1916

mechnikv.jpg (8808 Byte)

Professor for Biology in Odessa and since 1890 at the Institute Pateur in Paris. He studied the origins of  toxines and of the antitoxines of the cholera-germ (vibrio cholerae). In the year 1883 he introduced the theory of phagocytosis of bacteria by white blood cells (lymphocytes).

He shared the Nobel Price for Physiology and Medicine of the year 1908 with Paul Ehrlich.


Hall of Medicine

Kurt Paulus 6.3.99