15th May is celebrated as Metchnikoff Day to commemorate the birth of the Russian immunologist, Élie Metchnikoff, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1908. He is best known for his discovery of phagocytosis, which is the process by which white blood cells engulf and destroy bacteria.
Discovering Élie Metchnikoff: Unraveling the Genius of the Russian Immunologist!