Gerontology
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Gerontology is the science of old age and the aging process. It encompasses the understanding, prevention, rehabilitation, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of diseases, disorders, and conditions as
Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and the Institute of Gerontology.
Mechnikov was an influential figure in the development of modern gerontology. He is often considered the father of gerontology.
The hand of an older adult
Élie Metchnikoff
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Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, gallicised and known in Western sources as Élie Metchnikoff, was a zoologist from the Russian Empire of Moldavian noble ancestry best known for his research in immunology and th
Gerontology
…establishing for the first time aging as a process of development and not merely as deterioration. At the beginning of the 20th century, the biologist Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (1845–1916), awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1908 for his work on the immune system, coined the term "gerontology" in 1903, laying…
Metchnikoff c. 1910–1915
Leo Tolstoy (left) and Metchnikoff
Metchnikoff in his laboratory, 1913
Nikolai Kuznetsov, Élie Metchnikoff, 1886