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Ilya Ilyich Metchnikoff

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Profession
Biologist
Died
Jul 15, 1916
Zodiac
Taurus
Born in
Russia
About
Russian biologist who pioneered research into the immune system and human aging. He won the the Nobel prize in Medicine in 1908 for his revolutionary work on phagocytosis.
Family
His first wife, Ludmilla Feodorovitch, succumbed to tuberculosis; he met his second wife, Olga, two years later.

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