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Nobel Prize

Russia · Science / Medicine. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1904–1908Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1904

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov1904

Stockholm · Science / Medicine

Receives the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research on the physiology of digestion that transformed understanding of digestive regulation.

1908

Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov1908

Stockholm · Science / Medicine

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research on immunity, particularly his discovery of phagocytosis as a cellular defence mechanism.

Names involved

Ilya Ilyich MechnikovIvan Petrovich Pavlov

Provenance

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