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2 Hryvni Illia Mechnikov
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Composition | Nickel brass (German silver) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Mint | National Bank of Ukraine Banknote Printing and Minting Works, Kyiv, Ukraine (1998-date) |
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Illia Mechnikov shared the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Ehrlich for his discovery of phagocytosis — the process by which certain immune cells engulf and destroy pathogens. He made the foundational observations at Odessa in 1882, watching mobile cells in starfish larvae respond to a splinter he had inserted, and spent much of his subsequent career at the Pasteur Institute in Paris under Louis Pasteur himself. Ukraine has claimed him as a native son; he was born in Kharkiv Oblast in 1845.