Metchnikoff

[mech-ni-kawf, -kof, myech-nyi-kuhf]

noun

1. Élie Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, 1845–1916, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist in France: Nobel Prize in medicine 1908.

Metchnikoff

/ ˈmjetʃnikəf, mɛtʃnikɔf /

noun

1. Élie (eli). 1845–1916, Russian bacteriologist in France. He formulated the theory of phagocytosis and shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1908

Example Sentences

Metchnikoff’s innovation shifted the primary locus of medical intervention from the collective to the individual.

From Scientific American

One of the first to envision such use of microorganisms was the 19th-century zoologist Elie Metchnikoff.

From Literature

“Metchnikoff passes away; failed to achieve the allotted century and a half,” ran the headline in the Los Angeles Times.

From Washington Post

In the early 1900s, the Nobel Prize winner Elie Metchnikoff found that certain “healthy bacteria,” like those that produce lactic acid, can have a positive effect on digestion and the immune system.

From New York Times

The iatro-chemical system is the prototype of Metchnikoff’s theory of longevity.

From Project Gutenberg