| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1901 | 
| Number: | 40 - 0 | 
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| Nominee: 
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| Name: | Élie  Metchnikoff | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1845 | 
| Year, Death: | 1916 | 
| Profession: | (vice) 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: | Discovery of phagocytosis. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Armand  Gautier | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1837 | 
| Year, Death: | 1920 | 
| Profession: | Professor Faculté de Médicine, Paris | 
| University: | French Institute (Institut de France) | 
| City: | Paris | 
| Country: | FRANCE (FR) | 
| University: | Academy of Sciences | 
| City: | Paris | 
| Country: | FRANCE (FR) | 
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