Ilya Metchnikoff was a biologist and researcher of immunity, the body’s defence, who lived from 1845 to 1916. He worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He investigated how certain cells engulf foreign particles and microbes, a process called phagocytosis. In 1908 he shared the Nobel Prize for immunity research. The award was not for yogurt. He also took an interest in Bulgarian yogurt and proposed a link with longevity. The historical study used here stresses that neither he nor Grigorov proved that link. His contribution to immunology and the unproven food hypothesis need to be distinguished.
Achievements
Proposed an unproven link between yogurt and longevity.
Shared the 1908 Nobel Prize for immunity research.
Proposed an unproven link between yogurt and longevity.
History of Bulgaria
