Alexis Carrel (* 28. June 1873 in Lyon, (France); "† 5 November 1944 in Paris) was a French surgeon and received the Nobelpreis for medicine 1912.

Alexis Carrel concentrated particularly on the experimental surgery and the Transplantation of fabrics and entire organs. 1902 it already published a method for the connection of blood vessels and 1910 showed it, how one could keep blood vessels during long periods. it demonstrated the first results to 1908 to the Organtransplantation and 1935 built it together with the aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh equipment, which taken organs sterile artificially respirate could. Together with the French surgeon Theodore Tuffier it successfully accomplished a set of heart flap operations and could heart muscle cells in culture breed.

Personal record

1873 are born Carrel on 28 June as a son of the buyer Alexis Carrel and his Mrs. Anne Ricard in Lyon. Its father died, when he was still very young.

1890 Carrel before already makes its Bachelor OF Science, one year for the Bachelor OF Letters at the university of Lyon.

1900 he gets his doctor title at the same university. It leads its medical work thereupon at the hospital of Lyon away, in addition he was lecturer in anatomy and surgery at the university.

1902 it specializes in the field of the surgery at the hospital of Lyon

1904 change Alexis Carrel to the department for physiology of the University of Chicago under professor G.N. Steward.

1906 - 1912 continue Carrel its work on the Rockefeller Institut for medical research.

it receives the Nobelpreis for medicine to 1912 " as acknowledgment of its work over the container seam as well as over container and organ transplant ions "

1914 - 1919 serve Alexis Carrel as a major in the medical army corps of France. In this time it improved above all the well-known Wundbehandlung after Carrel and Dakin.

1939 return Alexis to France and get a post as a member of the Ministry of Health in Paris.

1940 he becomes a director of the Carrel Foundation the study of human problems.

1944 die Alexis Carrel on 5 November in Paris.

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