BIOLOGIST

Nicole Marthe Le Douarin

1930 - Today

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Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (born 20 August 1930) is a developmental biologist known for her studies of chimeras, which have led to critical insights regarding higher animal nervous and immune systems. Le Douarin invented an embryo manipulation technology to produce chimeric embryos, from chicken and quails. Her research has shed light on the development of higher animal nervous and immune systems. She showed that precursor cells within the neural crest were multipotent. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicole Marthe Le Douarin is the 970th most popular biologist (down from 947th in 2019), the 4,886th most popular biography from France (up from 4,983rd in 2019) and the 128th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nicole Marthe Le Douarin ranks 970 out of 1,097Before her are William Diller Matthew, Archibald Menzies, John Torrey, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky, Richard Evans Schultes, and Irene Manton. After her are Tilly Edinger, Yasutomi Nishizuka, James Chapin, Alice Eastwood, Sydney Parkinson, and Miriam Rothschild.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Nicole Marthe Le Douarin ranks 505Before her are José Guardiola, Schafik Hándal, Vladimir Andreyev, Beryl Penrose, Bob Baetens, and Innes Ireland. After her are Michele Giordano, Rober Eryol, Richard Davis, Dan Pagis, Herberto Hélder, and Richard Davalos.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicole Marthe Le Douarin ranks 4,886 out of 6,770Before her are Daniel Schneidermann (1958), Henri Padé (1863), Maurice Schilles (1888), Marcel Lambert (1876), Delphine de Vigan (1966), and Marielle de Sarnez (1951). After her are Jean-Pierre Haigneré (1948), Roger Rio (1913), Élie Bayol (1914), Christian Dalger (1949), Jean-Paul Dubois (1950), and Presnel Kimpembe (1995).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Nicole Marthe Le Douarin ranks 128Before her are Théodore Monod (1902), Paul Henri Lecomte (1856), Palisot de Beauvois (1752), François Gagnepain (1866), Gaston Bonnier (1853), and Pierre Chambon (1931). After her are Elizabeth F. Neufeld (1928), Jacques Miller (1931), and Stanislas Dehaene (1965).