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Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist who made important contributions to medical science. His work matters because he advanced techniques in organ transplantation and tissue culture, which laid groundwork for modern surgical and biological practices.
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- Born
- 1873
- Died
- 1944
- Works
- 52
Top works
- Le poitre cancéreux
- Dua
- Manifested life of tissues outside of the organism
- الانسان ذلك المجهول
- Trois écrivains devant Lourdes
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- “All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.”
- “L'intelligence est presque inutile à celui qui ne possède qu'elle.”
- “The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal. The ideal solution would be the suppression of each of these individuals as soon as he has proven himself to be dangerous.”
- “The existence of finality within the organism is undeniable. Each part seems to know the present and future needs of the whole, and acts accordingly. The significance of time and space is not the same for our tissues as for our mind. The body perceives the remote as well as the near, the future as well as the present.”
- “Man must remake himself. And he cannot remake himself without suffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor.”
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Carrel in 1912 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. In later time however, it was acknowledged that Carrel and Lindbergh's version of the perfusion pump, which initially had media prominence, was impractical and difficult to use, and would lose influence by the 1940s. Carrel was also a pioneer in tissue culture, transplantology and thoracic surgery. He is known for his leading role in implementing eugenic policies in Vichy France.
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1873 births1944 deaths20th-century French surgeonsConverts to Roman Catholicism from atheism or agnosticismCorresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925)Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of SciencesFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesFrench collaborators with Nazi GermanyFrench eugenicistsFrench fascistsFrench former atheists and agnostics