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1873 – 1944Quotes
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Background
- Born in
- Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon
- Educated at
- University of LyonSaint-Marc Lycée
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine🏆 Officer of the Legion of Honour🏆 Commander of the Legion of Honour🏆 Bordin Prize
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Serge Voronoff
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Trending topics shown first"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know."
— Alexis Carrel
Medicine1873–1944
philosophy
"The existence of finality within the organism is undeniable. Each part seems to know the present and future needs of the whole, and acts accordingly. The significance of time and space is not the same…"
— Alexis Carrel
Medicine1873–1944
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1873
Born
Birth1944
Died
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