| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1908 | 
| Number: | 38 - 0 | 
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| Nominee: 
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| Name: | Élie  Metchnikoff | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1845 | 
| Year, Death: | 1916 | 
| Profession: | director | 
| University: | Pasteur Institute (Institut Pasteur) | 
| City: | Paris | 
| Country: | FRANCE (FR) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908 | 
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| Motivation: | In recognition of his studies of infectious disease, and his contributions to  science in general. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | M N Tyrade | 
| Profession: | prof | 
| University: | Harvard Medical School | 
| City: | Cambridge | 
| State: | MA | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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