Russian zoologist Elie Metchnikoff, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1908, is generally credited as the father of gerontology, the first to think of death as a “disease” to be treated and cured. A century ago, he felt people should make it to 150 or so. While the doctor never made it nearly that far himself, as you can see in the below excerpt from his July 16, 1916 Brooklyn Daily Eagle obituary, a lot of his tips for encouraging longevity were sound.