Metchnikoff Point [SEP] continent
Metchnikoff Point
Metchnikoff Point is a point forming the western extremity of Pasteur Peninsula in northern Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It was first charted by the Third French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and named by Jean-Baptiste Charcot for Russian-born zoologist and bacteriologist Élie Metchnikoff, who succeeded Louis Pasteur as the director of the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
Historic site.
A plaque is mounted at an elevation of 70 m on the crest of the moraine separating the point from the adjacent glacier
At 1886, Russian emigrant Elie Metchnikoff—discoverer of phagocytes mediating innate immunity—was welcomed to Paris by Louis Pasteur with an entire floor at the Pasteur Institute. As did Paul Ehrlich—theorist on antibody mediating acquired immunity—and as did Pasteur, Metchnikoff believed nutrition to influence immunity. Sharing Pasteur's vision of science as means to combat humankind's woes, Metchnikoff brought France its first yogurt cultures for probiotic microorganisms to suppress the colon's putrefactive microorganisms allegedly causing toxic seepage, "autointoxication". Later the Pasteur Institute