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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexis Carrel has received more than 625,265 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Alexis Carrel is the 36th most popular physician (down from 29th in 2019), the 417th most popular biography from France (down from 364th 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 36 out of 726. Before him are António Egas Moniz, Allvar Gullstrand, Jean-Martin Charcot, Qa'a, Al-Zahrawi, and Marcello Malpighi. After him are Thutmose IV, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Polycarp, Virginia Apgar, and Emil Kraepelin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Alexis Carrel ranks 8. Before him are Thérèse of Lisieux, Enrico Caruso, Johannes V. Jensen, Colette, Konstantin von Neurath, and Jules Rimet. After him are Thomas Andrews, Luigi Lucheni, Henri Barbusse, Alfred Jarry, Otto Loewi, and Karl Schwarzschild. Among people deceased in 1944, Alexis Carrel ranks 17. Before him are Reza Shah, Günther von Kluge, Richard Sorge, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Charles Glover Barkla, and Michael Wittmann. After him are Marc Bloch, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Ludwig Beck, Ernst Thälmann, Chūichi Nagumo, and Florence Foster Jenkins.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexis Carrel ranks 417 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis, Duke of Burgundy (1682), André Masséna (1758), Jean Fouquet (1420), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), Lucien Bonaparte (1775), and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699). After him are Pytheas (-380), Nicolas Malebranche (1638), Napoléon, Prince Imperial (1856), Fernand Léger (1881), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), and Marc Bloch (1886).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Alexis Carrel ranks 5. Before him are Albert Schweitzer (1875), Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738), Claude Bernard (1813), and Jean-Martin Charcot (1825). After him are Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845), Ambroise Paré (1510), Hilary of Poitiers (315), René Laennec (1781), Philippe Pinel (1745), Karl Brandt (1904), and Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805).

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