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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 38,692 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Louis-Antoine Ranvier is the 459th most popular physician, the 3,589th most popular biography from France and the 47th most popular French Physician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Louis-Antoine Ranvier ranks 459 out of 502. Before him are Erik Adolf von Willebrand, Willem Johan Kolff, James Paget, Ennio Antonelli, Giovanni Battista Grassi, and Heinrich Rudolf Schinz. After him are Henri Dutrochet, Pierre Marie, Nicolás Monardes, Kyusaku Ogino, William Hunter, and Sergey Botkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Louis-Antoine Ranvier ranks 56. Before him are Duchess Agnes of Württemberg, Henri Brisson, Franz Defregger, Adlai Stevenson I, Benjamin Briggs, and Kārlis Baumanis. After him are Antanas Baranauskas, Rain-in-the-Face, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, Germanus V of Constantinople, Désirée Artôt, and Manuel Quintana. Among people deceased in 1922, Louis-Antoine Ranvier ranks 86. Before him are Louis Duchesne, Henry Bataille, Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Max von Hausen, Patrick Manson, and James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce. After him are Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Hannes Hafstein, Iwan Bloch, Jorge Montt, José de Amézola y Aspizúa, and William Henry Hudson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis-Antoine Ranvier ranks 3,589 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean Frédéric Frenet (1816), Charles Floquet (1828), Jacques Dufilho (1914), Gaston Defferre (1910), Christophe Galtier (1966), and Jean-Louis de Rambures (1930). After him are Gérard Lanvin (1950), Gérard Lenorman (1945), Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791), Claude Puel (1961), Claude Dauphin (1903), and Paul Taffanel (1844).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Louis-Antoine Ranvier ranks 47. Before him are Jean Pierre Flourens (1794), Adrien Proust (1834), Charles Estienne (1504), Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard (1742), Bernard de Jussieu (1699), and Jean-Nicolas Corvisart (1755). After him are Henri Dutrochet (1776), Pierre Marie (1853), Wladimir Aïtoff (1879), Guy Patin (1601), Noël Martin Joseph de Necker (1730), and Maurice Raynaud (1834).

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