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Alexis Carrel

1873 - 1944

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Alexis Carrel (French: [alɛksi kaʁɛl]; 28 June 1873 – 5 November 1944) was a French surgeon and biologist who spent most of his scientific career in the United States. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques. He invented the first perfusion pump with Charles Lindbergh opening the way to organ transplantation. Carrel was also a pioneer in tissue culture, transplantology and thoracic surgery. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexis Carrel is the 51st most popular physician (down from 36th in 2019), the 464th most popular biography from France (down from 417th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Physician.

Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for his work on vascular suture and transplantation.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Alexis Carrel ranks 51 out of 726Before him are Claude Bernard, Elias Lönnrot, Peter Damian, Polycarp, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, and Ronald Ross. After him are Emil von Behring, Joseph Murray, Peter C. Doherty, Gabor Maté, Emil Kraepelin, and Emil Theodor Kocher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Alexis Carrel ranks 12Before him are Lee de Forest, Leon Czolgosz, Konstantin von Neurath, Colette, Jules Rimet, and Hans von Euler-Chelpin. After him are Henri Barbusse, Otto Loewi, Luigi Lucheni, Alfred Jarry, Karl Schwarzschild, and Spyridon Louis. Among people deceased in 1944, Alexis Carrel ranks 18Before him are Günther von Kluge, Richard Sorge, Hilma af Klint, Reza Shah, Bertha Benz, and Lou Henry Hoover. After him are Ludwig Beck, Thomas Midgley Jr., Galeazzo Ciano, Erwin von Witzleben, Manuel L. Quezon, and Ernst Thälmann.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexis Carrel ranks 464 out of 6,770Before him are André Le Nôtre (1613), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Alphonse de Lamartine (1790), Auguste Escoffier (1847), Livilla (-13), and Jean Monnet (1888). After him are Paul Éluard (1895), Jean Fouquet (1420), Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714), Gaspard Monge (1746), Louis III of France (863), and Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770).

Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Alexis Carrel ranks 5Before him are Albert Schweitzer (1875), Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845), Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738), and Claude Bernard (1813). After him are Charles Nicolle (1866), Philippe Pinel (1745), Jean-Martin Charcot (1825), René Laennec (1781), André Frédéric Cournand (1895), Hilary of Poitiers (315), and Ambroise Paré (1510).