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Life of Elie Metchnikoff, 1845-1916

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Life of Elie Metchnikoff, 1845-1916

Olga Metchnikoff and E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir Lankester

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His wife knew the man behind the microscope, and Olga Metchnikoff wrote his life with rare closeness. She follows Elie Metchnikoff from a restless Russian youth to the discovery of the body's devouring cells and a Nobel Prize. A tender, firsthand portrait of a driven scientist. Meet the man who found immunity's hidden soldiers.

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48 chapters

  1. 1LIFE OF ELIE METCHNIKOFF
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4INTRODUCTION
  5. 5CHAPTER I
  6. 6CHAPTER II
  7. 7CHAPTER III
  8. 8CHAPTER IV
  9. 9CHAPTER V
  10. 10CHAPTER VI
  11. 11CHAPTER VII
  12. 12CHAPTER VIII
  13. 13CHAPTER IX
  14. 14CHAPTER X
  15. 15CHAPTER XI
  16. 16CHAPTER XII
  17. 17CHAPTER XIII
  18. 18CHAPTER XIV

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