| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1905 | 
| Number: | 55 - 0 | 
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| Nominee: 
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| Name: | Élie  Metchnikoff | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1845 | 
| Year, Death: | 1916 | 
| Profession: | prof | 
| University: | Pasteur Institute (Institut Pasteur) | 
| City: | Paris | 
| Country: | FRANCE (FR) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908 | 
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| Motivation: | The works "Leçons sur la pathologie comparée de l´inflammation" (Paris 1892), "L´immunité dans les maladies infectieuses" (Paris 1901) and, in collaboration with prof E. Roux, "Études expérimentales sur la syphilis" (1903-1904). | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | N J Tchistovitch | 
| Profession: | prof | 
| University: | Imperial Academy of Medicine | 
| City: | St Petersburg | 
| Country: | U.S.S.R. (SU)  now RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU) | 
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