Élie Metchnikoff



Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, also written as Élie Metchnikoff (15 May 1845 – 15 July 1916) was a Russian best known for his pioneering research in. He and were jointly awarded the 1908.

Quotes

 * 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.
 * Quoted in Strength and Diet by Francis Albert Rollo Russell (London: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1905), p. 2.