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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis-Antoine Ranvier has received more than 41,465 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Louis-Antoine Ranvier is the 545th most popular physician (down from 458th in 2019), the 4,168th most popular biography from France (down from 3,573rd in 2019) and the 54th most popular French Physician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Louis-Antoine Ranvier ranks 545 out of 726. Before him are Adam Zamenhof, Albrecht von Graefe, Thomas Horsfield, Paolo Macchiarini, Nikolay Gamaleya, and Łucja Frey. After him are Franz Josef Ruprecht, Antonius Musa, Jeffrey Ullman, Thomas Erastus, Serenus Sammonicus, and Mustafa Barghouti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Louis-Antoine Ranvier ranks 66. Before him are Désirée Artôt, Antanas Baranauskas, Justo Rufino Barrios, Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Alexander Litovchenko, and Tommaso Salvadori. After him are Paul Du Chaillu, Kārlis Baumanis, Germanus V of Constantinople, Hashimoto Gahō, Eduardo Pondal, and Osbert Salvin. Among people deceased in 1922, Louis-Antoine Ranvier ranks 104. Before him are Takamine Jōkichi, Ernest Lavisse, Iwan Bloch, Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Ferdinand Keller, and José de Amézola y Aspizúa. After him are Berthold Delbrück, Take Ionescu, Axel Thue, Josef Václav Myslbek, Betzy Akersloot-Berg, and František Ondříček.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis-Antoine Ranvier ranks 4,168 out of 6,770. Before him are Georges Buchard (1893), Alfred Lacroix (1863), Maurice Feltin (1883), Renée Adorée (1898), Raymond Kaelbel (1932), and Yves Giraud-Cabantous (1904). After him are Serge Lang (1927), Paul Paray (1886), Pierre Adet (1763), Jean Cavaillès (1903), Maurice Boitel (1919), and Roger Ducret (1888).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Louis-Antoine Ranvier ranks 54. Before him are Noël Martin Joseph de Necker (1730), Guy Patin (1601), Léon Jean Marie Dufour (1780), Wladimir Aïtoff (1879), Pierre Marie (1853), and Henri Dutrochet (1776). After him are Aemilia Hilaria (300), Jean Cruveilhier (1791), Madeleine Pelletier (1874), Julieta Lanteri (1873), Maurice Raynaud (1834), and Eugène Olivier (1881).

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