BIOLOGIST

Charles Richet

1850 - 1935

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Charles Robert Richet (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl ʁɔbɛʁ ʁiʃɛ]; 25 August 1850 – 4 December 1935) was a French physiologist at the Collège de France and immunology pioneer. In 1913, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis". Richet devoted many years to the study of paranormal and spiritualist phenomena, coining the term "ectoplasm". He believed in the inferiority of black people, was a proponent of eugenics, and presided over the French Eugenics Society towards the end of his life. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Richet is the 51st most popular biologist (down from 34th in 2019), the 527th most popular biography from France (up from 528th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Biologist.

Charles Richet is most famous for his research on anaphylaxis, which is a sudden and severe allergic reaction to a substance.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charles Richet ranks 51 out of 1,097. Before him are Peter Simon Pallas, Harald zur Hausen, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Tomas Lindahl, and Irwin Rose. After him are Lazzaro Spallanzani, André Michel Lwoff, Karl Ernst von Baer, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, François Jacob, and Roger Guillemin.

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Among people born in 1850, Charles Richet ranks 12. Before him are Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Edward Smith, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Eduard Bernstein, and Hermann Ebbinghaus. After him are John Collier, Mihai Eminescu, Pierre Loti, Luigi Cadorna, Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, and Oliver Heaviside. Among people deceased in 1935, Charles Richet ranks 15. Before him are Victor Grignard, Emmy Noether, Alban Berg, Auguste Escoffier, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and Astrid of Sweden. After him are André Citroën, Henri Barbusse, Carlos Gardel, Hugo de Vries, Paul Dukas, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr..

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Richet ranks 527 out of 6,770. Before him are Théodore Rousseau (1812), Joan I of Navarre (1273), Maurice Jarre (1924), Suger (1080), Lothair of France (941), and Pauline Bonaparte (1780). After him are Francis, Duke of Guise (1519), André Citroën (1878), Pepin the Hunchback (770), Henri Barbusse (1873), Jean-Louis Tauran (1943), and Marc Bloch (1886).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Charles Richet ranks 6. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), Georges Cuvier (1769), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707), Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748), and Luc Montagnier (1932). After him are André Michel Lwoff (1902), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), François Jacob (1920), Roger Guillemin (1924), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), and Jean Dausset (1916).

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