Alexis Carrel
Alexis Carrel (
June 28 1873 -
November 5 1944) was a French surgeon and biologist. He was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in
1912. Born and educated in Lyon, France. He practiced in France and the United States (University of Chicago and the Rockefeller Institute). He developed new techniques in vascular sutures and was a pioneer in
transplantology and thoracic surgery. He was a member of learned societies in the
United States of America,
Spain,
Russia,
Sweden, the
Netherlands,
Belgium,
France,
Vatican City,
Germany,
Italy and
Greece as well as he was honoured by honorary doctorates of the Universities of
Belfast,
Princeton,
California and
New York, and
Brown and
Columbia Universities.
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