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d. 1916 Russia

Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, also written as Élie Metchnikoff (15 May 1845 – 15 July 1916) was a Russian zoologist best known for his pioneering research in immunology. He and Paul Ehrlich were jointly awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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The duration of the life of men may be considerably increased. It would be true progress to go back to the simple dishes of our ancestors. … Progress would consist in simplifying many sides of the lives of civilised people.

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