| abstract | - Dr. Alexander Herbert Imich, PhD (4 February 1903 — 8 June 2014) was a Polish-born American chemist, parapsychologist and writer, who was the president of the Anomalous Phenomena Research Center in New York City. Aside from that, Dr. Imich was awarded the Guinness World Records title of Oldest living man on 8 May 2014 at the age of 111 years and 93 days after Arturo Licata died, as the youngest man to hold this title since Tomoji Tanabe did in January 2007. He died at 111 on 8 June 2014, making Sakari Momoi the new oldest living man; Momoi was born one day after him. He practices calorie restriction to stay alive long. Besides longevity, he is also a chemist. Imich was born in present-day Częstochowa, Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire, on 4 February 1903. In 1951, he and his wife, Wela (1914-1986), immigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union and Imich had lived in Manhattan alone since she died in 1986.
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