Alexis Carrel - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1912
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Alexis Carrel

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1912
in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs
Citizenship
France France
Languages
English, French
date of birth
6/28/1873
place of birth
Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon
date of death
11/5/1944
place of death
Paris
Lived
71 years

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educated at
  • University of Lyon
    • academic degree: Doctor of Medicine
    • start time: 1889
    • end time: 1893
  • Saint-Marc Lycée
position held
  • regent
    • end time: 1944
    • start time: 1941
employer
  • The Rockefeller University
    • end time: 1939
    • start time: 1906
  • University of Chicago
    • end time: 1906
    • start time: 1904
member of
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1936
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 12/3/1927
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1909
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • Académie Nationale de Médecine
  • Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
  • French Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
field of work
  • biology
  • vascular surgery
  • pathophysiology
  • physiology
  • surgery
occupation
  • surgeon
  • sociologist
  • physiologist
  • biologist
doctoral student
  • Serge Voronoff
notable work
  • Man, The Unknown
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