What is Ilya Mechnikov?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov |image =Ilya Mechnikov nobel.jpg |caption = Ilya Mechnikov, 1908 |birth_date = 16 May 1845 |birth_place = near [[Kharkov]], [[Russian Empire]] |death_date = 16 July 1916 |death_place = [[Paris]], [[France]] |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = |ethnicity = |field = [[Zoology]], [[immunology]] |work_institutions = [[Institut Pasteur]], [[Paris]], [[France]] |alma_mater = [[University of Kharkoff]] |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (1908) |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov'''<ref>Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov ({{lang-ru|Илья́ Ильи́ч Ме́чников}}, {{lang-uk|Ілля Ілліч Мечников}}, also known as Élie Metchnikoff)</ref> (16 May 1845 – 16 July 1916) was a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-12-17|title=Народився Ілля Мечников, видатний учений-біолог, лауреат Нобелівської премії {{!}} Національна бібліотека України імені В. І. Вернадського|url=http://www.nbuv.gov.ua/node/4064|access-date=2022-12-11|archive-date=2018-12-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217110602/http://www.nbuv.gov.ua/node/4064|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> [[zoologist]] of (partly) [[Jewish]] descent (his mother was Jewish).<ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Elie_Metchnikoff.aspx Elie Metchnikoff, www.encyclopedia.com]</ref> He won the 1908 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]], with [[Paul Ehrlich]], for finding out how [[immune system|immunity]] fights [[disease]]. Mechnikov was a protozoologist who became better known for the discovery of [[macrophage]]s in 1882. He discovered how they dealt with germs by [[phagocytosis]]. Macrophages are found in virtually all [[Tissue (biology)|tissues]],<ref>Ovchinnikov, Dmitry A. 20