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Ilya Metchnikoff

By EmilianoVidania

  • Born

  • Metchnikoff begins comparative embryological research.

  • Metchnikoff

    Publishes a series of papers on sponges, attacks Haekel's gastrea hypothesis and argues for parenchymella as the primordial metazoan. Turns to the problem of intracelullar digestion

  • Embryological studies

    Extends comparative embryological studies and embraces Darwinism

  • Phagocytosis

    Theory elaborated as a case of physiological inflammation beings studies of phagocyte bactericidal capacity against certain microorganisms.

  • Discovery of antibacterial substance in the blood, Metchnikoff contests the humoral theory of immunity

  • Metchnikoff delivers Lectures on the Comparative Pathology of Inflammation

  • Metchnikoff publishes his opus magnum, Immunity in Infectious Diseases

  • Nobel Prize jointly awarded to Metchnikoff and Ehrlich

  • Ilya Metchnikoff dies.