The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Elie Metchnikoff

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333386915 ISBN 13 : 9781333386917

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Prolongation of Life



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A propos du livre

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Biographie de l'auteur

Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916) was Sub-Director of the Pasteur Institute, and a Nobel Prize winner for medicine. Metchnikoff was born in Russia and lived in Paris from 1888, where many of his works were originally published in French. He worked in the fields of embryology, comparative anatomy, pathology, bacteriology and immunology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333386915
• ISBN 13: 9781333386917
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 375
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