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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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Person · Open Library
- 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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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,412x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018
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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