Born in Ukraine 2. ILLYA MECHNIKOV. Episode 3

First Nobel Prize winner born on a Ukrainian land. A genius who studied the course in natural sciences by Kharkiv University in two years. At 18 he published his first research in Germany. And at 24 he became a doctor of zoology. This is Illya Mechnikov.
At 11 years of age he received a microscope as a present from his father to study biology. This determined his fate. After university, there were more studies and research in Germany, and then Mechnikov went to Odesa.
There, he headed the chair of zoology and comparative anatomy in what is now Odesa university. And then he established and managed Odesa bacteriological station, the first ever in the empire.
His first wife’s death due to tuberculosis and second wife’s typhoid fever led Mechnikov to start fighting infectious diseases through studying immunity and developing his phagocytosis theory.
As a sign of protest against Russia’s imperialist policy, Mechnikov emigrated to France. In Paris, at Pasteur Institute he continued his research and was the first to provide scientific rationale for diseases emerging against the backdrop of immune deficiency.
Illya Metchnikov received a Nobel Prize for these works and remained forever famous both in the history of Ukraine and in global science.

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