title: Elias Ilya Metchnikoff--a multifaceted biologist, discoverer of phagocytosis.
authors.affiliation: Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Shafrir
mesh_terms: D001695:Biology / Q000266:history; D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009613:Nobel Prize; D010587:Phagocytosis; D010678:Philately; D012426:Russia; D013548:Sweden