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Metchnikoff

American  
[mech-ni-kawf, -kof, myech-nyi-kuhf] / ˌmɛtʃ nɪˈkɔf, -ˌkɒf, ˈmyɛtʃ nyɪ kəf /

noun

  1. Élie Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, 1845–1916, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist in France: Nobel Prize in medicine 1908.

Metchnikoff British  
/ ˈmjetʃnikəf, mɛtʃnikɔf /

noun

  1. Élie (eli). 1845–1916, Russian bacteriologist in France. He formulated the theory of phagocytosis and shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1908

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