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Elie Metchnikoff

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Noun1.Elie Metchnikoff - Russian bacteriologist in France who formulated the theory of phagocytosis (1845-1916)Elie Metchnikoff - Russian bacteriologist in France who formulated the theory of phagocytosis (1845-1916)
Elie Metchnikov, Ilya Ilich Metchnikov, Metchnikoff, Metchnikov
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Nobel prize winner, Elie Metchnikoff of the Pasteur Institute, propounded the theory that lactic acid bacteria are beneficial to human health in 1907.
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Russian scientist and Nobel Prize winner Elie Metchnikoff in 1907 reported on the unusually long life and good health of peasants in one region in Bulgaria.
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