French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1944)

Alexis Carrel

Alexis Carrel 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.

Born

1873

June 28

Died

1944

Era

1870s

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1944 Died

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1098 Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch.
1360 Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
1461 Edward, Earl of March, is crowned King Edward IV of England.
1495 A French force heavily defeats a much larger Neapolitan and Spanish army at the battle of Seminara, leading to the creation of the Tercios by Gonzalo de Córdoba.

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The world in 1944

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april 1 World War II: Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
april 10 Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp.
april 16 World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
april 17 Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.

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Albert Henry Krehbiel 1873– American painter and illustrator (died 1945) Alberto Santos-Dumont 1873– Brazilian pilot (died 1932) Ernest Lawson 1873–1939 Canadian-American painter (born 1873) Francis Burton Harrison 1873–1957 American general and politician, 6th Governor-General of the Philippines (died 1957) Francisco I. Madero 1873–1913 Mexican president and author (born 1873) Henri Barbusse 1873–1935 French journalist and author (born 1873) Monty Noble 1873–1940 Australian cricketer (died 1940) Nellie McClung 1873–1951 Canadian author and suffragist (died 1951) Oskari Tokoi 1873–1963 Finnish socialist and the Chairman of the Senate of Finland (born 1873)

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