| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1904 |
| Number: | 56 - 5 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Élie Metchnikoff |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1845 |
| Year, Death: | 1916 |
| Profession: | (vice) director |
| University: | Pasteur Institute (Institut Pasteur) |
| City: | Paris |
| Country: | FRANCE (FR) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908 | |
| Motivation: | His work in cellular physiology and general pathology, especially his studies of phagocytosis. The summary of Mechnikov´s work as described in his publication "L´immunité" (Annales de l´Institut Pasteur, 1901). |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Casimir Kostanechi |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Prof anatomy |
| University: | Krakow |
| City: | Krakow (Cracow) |
| Country: | POLAND (PL) |
| Comments: | The following 13 professors from the University of Krakow made a joint nomination of I. Mechnikov: See entry 56-0. Ch. de Klecki; Edw. Korczynski; Tadeusz Brawicz, prof pathological anatomy; Odo Bujwid, prof hygiene, University of Jagellone; Casimir Kostanechi, prof anatomy, University of Krakow; Mathior Jakubowski, prof pediatrics; Bolislaw Wicherkiewicz, prof ophthalmology, University of Krakow; Leo Wachholz, prof forensic medicine; Bronislas Kader, prof surgery; Joseph Lazarski, prof pharmacology; Henri Jordan, prof gynecology; Ales. Stopzanski, prof medical chemistry; Napoleon Cybulsci, prof physiology. |