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BIOLOGIST

Charles Richet

1850 - 1935

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Charles Robert Richet (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 183,913 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Charles Richet is the 31st most popular biologist, the 446th most popular biography from France (up from 495th 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 31 out of 841. Before him are Trofim Lysenko, Barbara McClintock, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Conrad Gessner, Jules Bordet, and Dian Fossey. After him are Theodor Schwann, Yoshinori Ohsumi, Harald zur Hausen, Albrecht Kossel, Karl von Frisch, and Lazzaro Spallanzani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Charles Richet ranks 10. Before him are Karl Ferdinand Braun, Edward Smith, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Eduard Bernstein, Sofia Kovalevskaya, and Hermann Ebbinghaus. After him are Mihai Eminescu, Pierre Loti, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Pat Garrett, Oliver Heaviside, and Lafcadio Hearn. Among people deceased in 1935, Charles Richet ranks 14. Before him are Arthur Henderson, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Alban Berg, Astrid of Sweden, André Citroën, and Auguste Escoffier. After him are Carlos Gardel, Victor Grignard, Paul Dukas, Henri Barbusse, Jane Addams, and Hugo de Vries.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Richet ranks 446 out of 6,011. Before him are Louis III of France (863), Marie Louise d’Orléans (1662), Jean Fouquet (1420), Napoléon Louis Bonaparte (1804), Carloman I (751), and Gaspard II de Coligny (1519). After him are W. Somerset Maugham (1874), Théodore Rousseau (1812), Jean Lannes (1769), Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714), André Derain (1880), and Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

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

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