Editorial: Did Jeanne Calment live to 122 years old, or did her daughter pull a fraud for the ages?
by The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune
Jan 10, 2019
2 minutes
For years, Jeanne Calment has reigned as the oldest documented person to have lived. She supposedly died in 1997 at age 122.
But now Russian mathematician Nikolay Zak has exhumed that claim and startled researchers with a challenge: He argues that Calment was actually
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