" First Transplant Surgeon "
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Born 28 Jun 1873; died 5 Nov 1944 at age 71.
#French-American #surgeon and biologist who received the 1912 #NobelPrize for Physiology or #Medicine for developing a method of #suturing #bloodvessels.
He moved to the #UnitedStates in 1905. As a member of the staff of the #RockefellerInstitute, he did notable work on the problem of keeping #tissue alive after removal from a living #organism.
The most famous example was a piece of tissue from the heart of a chicken #embryo, which was kept alive from 1912 to 1946, at which time the experiment was deliberately ended.
Techniques developed by Carrel have made possible the #surgical #transplantation of blood #vessels and body #organs.
