3. Physics
Lev Davidovich
Landau
Brian David
Josephson
4. Chemistry
Frederick Sanger
Dmitri Ivanovich
Mendeleev
5. Scientist I admire
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov
He is the famous Russian embryologist,
bacteriologist and immunologist.
Mechnikov was born in 1845 in a
village near Kharkiv, Ukraine, Russian
Empire .
6. His achievements
Mechnikov was interested in the study of microbes, and especially the
immune system. In 1882 he discovered the phagocytosis.
Mechnikov also developed a theory that aging is caused by toxic bacteria
in the gut and that lactic acid could prolong life. Based on this theory, he
drank sour milk every day.
In 1892 he developed the comparative pathology of inflammation on the
basis of his studies, and in the future - the phagocytic theory of immunity.
7. “Immunity in
Infectious Diseases”
“The Nature of Man”
“The Prolongation of Life”
8. The Nobel Prize
Mechnikov received the Nobel Prize
in Medicine in 1908, shared with Paul
Ehrlich, for his work on phagocytosis.
9. The Personal Life
Mechnikov was married to his first wife Ludmila Feodorovitch in
1863. She died from tuberculosis on 20 April 1873.
Then he married again in 1875, to Olga Belokopytova who died in
1944 in Paris from typhoid.
He created the first Russian school of microbiologists,
immunologists and pathologists, participated in the creation of
research institutions, and a number of bacteriological and
immunological institutes in Russia named after Mechnikov.
Mechnikov died in 1916 in Paris from heart failure.
10. Connection with life
and future
His discoveries in biology, especially in the immune system, help
other scientists to create medications from various diseases.
Also, based on his discoveries, many subjects became important to
the society.
11. Why it is important
to pay tribute to the
scientists