| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1908 | 
| Number: | 80 - 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: | Extensive research in bacteriology. Also his works "sur la natur humaine" (on human nature) and "Essais optimistes". | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Adolf  Beck | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1863 | 
| Year, Death: | 1942 | 
| Profession: | prof physiology | 
| University: | Lemberg (now Lviv, SU) | 
| City: | Lemberg (now Lviv) | 
| Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) | 
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