Historical place archive

Messina in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Messina in Russia. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

4 records4 event labels1 people1882–1882

Historical events in Messina

1882

1882
Cellular Immunity
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov · Medicine

The achievement marks cellular immunity as an important Russian scientific milestone.

1882
Cellular Immunity Research
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov · Medicine

Develops the concept that phagocytic cells participate in biological defence.

1882
Discovery of Phagocytosis
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov · Medicine

Observes cells engulfing foreign material and develops the concept of phagocytosis.

1882
Phagocytosis Observed
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov · Medicine

Observes mobile cells engulfing foreign material in starfish larvae.

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