Élie Metchnikoff
It is noteworthy that interest in the problems of aging has been traced in MOIP for 200 years. Many outstanding domestic and foreign scientists and naturalists who made a huge contribution to the development of world gerontology were Full and Honorary Members of MOIP. Among them: August Weismann, Élie Metchnikoff, Rudolf Virchow, Dmitri Mendeleev, Alexander Oparin, Zhores Medvedev, Alexander Bogdanov, Nikolai Koltsov.