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Louis-Antoine Ranvier

1835 - 1922

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Louis-Antoine Ranvier (2 October 1835 – 22 March 1922) was a French physician, pathologist, anatomist and histologist, who discovered the nodes of Ranvier, regularly spaced discontinuities of the myelin sheath, occurring at varying intervals along the length of a nerve fiber. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis-Antoine Ranvier is the 539th most popular physician (up from 545th in 2019), the 4,026th most popular biography from France (up from 4,169th in 2019) and the 54th most popular French Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Louis-Antoine Ranvier ranks 539 out of 726Before him are Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, Zofia Zamenhof, Rufus of Ephesus, Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch, Nadezhda Suslova, and Henri Dutrochet. After him are Anna Kuliscioff, Frederick Twort, Wladimir Aïtoff, Jan Janský, Nicolás Monardes, and Willem Piso.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Louis-Antoine Ranvier ranks 61Before him are Bertalan Székely, Krišjānis Barons, Felix Draeseke, Duchess Agnes of Württemberg, Rain-in-the-Face, and Manuel Quintana. After him are Alexander Potebnja, Eduardo Pondal, Justo Rufino Barrios, Hashimoto Gahō, Désirée Artôt, and Ramón Barros Luco. Among people deceased in 1922, Louis-Antoine Ranvier ranks 100Before him are Ernest Lavisse, Henry Bataille, Max von Hausen, Hannes Hafstein, Otto Lehmann, and Jorge Montt. After him are William Henry Hudson, Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, John Moresby, Ferdinand Keller, and Jørgen Løvland.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis-Antoine Ranvier ranks 4,026 out of 6,770Before him are Isabelle Collin Dufresne (1935), Jean-Claude Mézières (1938), Jacques Ochs (1883), François de Créquy (1625), Henri Dutrochet (1776), and Robert Liottel (1885). After him are Henri Oreiller (1925), Émile Champion (1879), Henri Regnault (1843), Nicolas Dalayrac (1753), Alain Cavalier (1931), and Véronique Sanson (1949).

Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Louis-Antoine Ranvier ranks 54Before him are Ernest Duchesne (1874), Léon Jean Marie Dufour (1780), Eugène Olivier (1881), Madeleine Pelletier (1874), Jean Cruveilhier (1791), and Henri Dutrochet (1776). After him are Wladimir Aïtoff (1879), Pierre Marie (1853), Noël Martin Joseph de Necker (1730), Guy Patin (1601), Julieta Lanteri (1873), and Maurice Raynaud (1834).