Élie Metchnikoff

thumb|Élie Metchnikoff 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. 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. External links Category:1916 deaths Category:Atheists Category:Jews Category:Medical scientists Category:Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine Category:Zoologists from Russia Category:Nobel laureates from Russia