Russian-French immunologist, embryologist, biologist
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He watched white blood cells swallow foreign particles under a microscope in 1882 and named the process phagocytosis — the discovery that built modern immunology and won him the 1908 Nobel Prize alongside Paul Ehrlich.
Born in 1845 in what's now Ukraine to a Moldavian noble father and Ukrainian-Jewish mother, Mechnikov's lineage was claimed by five nations though he eventually settled in France. His 1882 discovery of phagocytes — cells that devour invaders — revealed the body's innate immune defense and laid the groundwork for cell-mediated immunity while Ehrlich completed the picture with humoral immunity. Beyond immunology, he coined the term "gerontology" in 1903 and championed lactic acid bacteria for longevity, an idea that became the foundation of probiotics. He died in 1916, but life-extension advocat…
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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.
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