Elie Metchnikoff ~ Immunologist ~ B Moloch Poster

Le Professeur Metchnikoff ~ Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916) Medical Caricature ~ B. Moloch c.1900 ~~~ Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (Élie Metchnikoff) was a Russian zoologist best known for his pioneering research into the immune system. He and Paul Ehrlich were awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of their work on immunity".[ He is also credited by some sources with coining the term gerontology in 1903, for the emerging study of aging and longevity. He established the concept of cell-mediated immunity, while Ehrlich that of humoral immunity. Their works are regarded as the foundation of the science of immunology.[ In immunology he is given an epithet the "father of natural immunity". Artist: Hector Moloch (B. Moloch) (1849-1909) ~ (PD-Old-70-1923) ~ Illustrator ~ Caricaturist ~ Cartoonist In Chanteclair, he published two portraits-load per month on the members of the Academy of Medicine.