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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Richet has received more than 197,916 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Charles Richet is the 34th most popular biologist (down from 31st in 2019), the 528th most popular biography from France (down from 446th in 2019) and the 5th 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 34 out of 1,097. Before him are Katherine Oppenheimer, Theodor Schwann, Ada Yonath, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Barbara McClintock, and Albrecht Kossel. After him are Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Harald zur Hausen, Dian Fossey, Karl von Frisch, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, and Lazzaro Spallanzani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Charles Richet ranks 10. Before him are Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Edward Smith, Eduard Bernstein, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Karl Ferdinand Braun, and Hermann Ebbinghaus. After him are Pierre Loti, Mihai Eminescu, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Oliver Heaviside, Ignác Goldziher, and Luigi Cadorna. Among people deceased in 1935, Charles Richet ranks 17. Before him are Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Astrid of Sweden, André Citroën, Carlos Gardel, Auguste Escoffier, and Victor Grignard. After him are Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, Henri Barbusse, Paul Dukas, Hugo de Vries, Henri Pirenne, and Komitas.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Richet ranks 528 out of 6,770. Before him are Roger I of Sicily (1031), Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1747), Auguste Escoffier (1847), Victor Grignard (1871), Allan Kardec (1804), and Richard Clayderman (1953). After him are Hilary of Poitiers (315), Joseph Joffre (1852), Avitus (395), Marcel Mauss (1872), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), and Théodore Rousseau (1812).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Charles Richet ranks 5. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), Georges Cuvier (1769), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707), and Luc Montagnier (1932). After him are Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Roger Guillemin (1924), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), François Jacob (1920), and Adelbert von Chamisso (1781).

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