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A Short Biography of Alexis Carrel

Author Name:

Alexis Carrel

Born As:

Alexis Carrel

Other Names:

Alexis Carrel

Born:

28 Jun 1873

Died:

5 Nov 1944




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Surgeon and experimental biologist                          
                          
                          
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912.
During the First World War - 1914-1918, Carrel and the English chemist Henry Drysdale Dakin developed the Carrel-Dakin method of treating wounds based on chlorine - Dakin's solution, which, preceding the development of antibiotics, was a major medical advance in the care of traumatic wounds. For this, Carrel was awarded the Légion d'honneur.