É⋅lie /Fr.eɪˈli/Show Spelled Pronunciation[Fr.ey-lee]Show IPA, (Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov), 1845–1916, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist in France: Nobel prize for medicine 1908.
Metch·ni·koff also Metch·ni·kov (měch'nĭ-kôf', myěch'nĭ-kəf) Russian zoologist. He shared a 1908 Nobel Prize for discoveries and advances in immunology.