| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1908 | 
| Number: | 32 - 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: | Numerous discoveries, as exemplified in the following works:
"Leçons sur la pathologie comparée de l´inflammation", Paris 1892 (theory of phagocytosis);
"l´Immunité dans les maladies infectueuses", Paris 1902 (work on syphilis);
"études sur la natur humaine", Pris 1903 ("studies of human nature"). | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | N J Tchistovitch | 
| Profession: | prof infectious disease and bacteriology | 
| City: | St Petersburg | 
| Country: | U.S.S.R. (SU)  now RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU) | 
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