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  Charles Robert Richet (www.whonamedit.com)
Charles Robert Richet Charles Robert Richet was the 1913 recipient of the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine, "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis", his term for the some times deadly reaction in a sensitised individual against a second injection of an antigen.
Richet was the son of the surgeon Louis Dominique Alfred Richet (1816-1891).
Richet was professor at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, from 1887 to 1927.
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 Charles Robert Richet Biography | World of Biology
Charles Richet was born on August 25, 1850, in Paris, the son of a professor of clinical surgery.
Richet was struck by the idea that microbes might cause disease by producing a toxin, and that immune animals might carry a substance in their blood that counteracts the toxin.
Richet called this reaction anaphylaxis, and in subsequent investigations, he and others found that it could occur as the result of exposure to a number of substances.
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 Charles Robert Richet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Robert Richet (August 25, 1850 – December 4, 1935) was a French physiologist who initially investigated a variety of subjects, such as neuro-chemistry, digestion, thermoregulation in homeothermic animals, and breathing.
He was named professor of Physiology at the Collège de France in 1887, and became a member of the Académie de Médecine in 1898.
Charles Robert Richet was a man of many interests, and his works include books about history, sociology, phylosophy, psychology, as well as theatre plays and poetry.
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 NOVA Online | Cancer Warrior | Accidental Discoveries
Charles Robert Richet used poison from a sea anemone like this one in his experiments on allergies.
Charles Robert Richet, a French physiologist, made several experiments testing the reaction of dogs exposed to poison from the tentacles of sea anemones.
Richet's conclusions from his findings came to form the theoretical basis of the medical study and treatment of allergies.
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 Charles Richet - Biography
Charles Richet was born on august 25, 1850, in Paris.
He was the son of Alfred Richet, Professor of Clinical Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine, Paris, and his wife Eugenie, née Renouard.
They had five sons, Georges, Jacques, Charles (who, like his father, was Professor in the Faculty of Medicine in Paris and was, in his turn, succeeded by his son Gabriel), Albert and Alfred, and two daughters, Louise (Mme Lesné) and Adèle (Mme le Ber).
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 Botany online: MIRROR SITE: Chronology - Historical Developments - Biological Sciences
Robert Hooke's Discourse on Earthquakes, in which he speculates on the geological mechanisms responsible for the distribution of fossils, is published posthumously.
The voyage of the Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard as naturalist.
Charles and Francis Darwin showed that a phototropic "influence" is transmitted from the tip of a unilaterally illuminated plant to the basal regions.
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 Dr. Gabriel Richet
Richet G, Hornych A: The effect of an expansion of extracellular fluids on net Na flux in the jejunum of rats.
Richet G, Mignon F, Morel-Maroger L, Siguier F, Gode P, Delluc G, Leibovitch M: [Role of massive uratic obstruction of the tubular lumina occurring during treatment of a malignant blood disease in acute renal insufficiency].
Richet G, Hagege J, Gabe M: [Correlation between bicarbonate transfer and morphology of tubular cells distal to Henle's loop in the rat].
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 Charles Richet - Robert Walpole
It was on this date, August 26, 1850, that French physiologist Charles Richet was born in Paris.
The son of a surgeon, Richet entered medical school but anatomy and surgery bored him, so he wrote poetry and drama as a diversion.
Richet died in Paris on 4 December 1935.
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 Charles Robert Richet Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
The French physiologist Charles Robert Richet (1850-1935) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the phenomenon of anaphylaxis.
Charles Richet, the son of Alfred Richet, a professor in the University of Paris, was born in Paris on Aug. 25, 1850.
It was thus conclusively demonstrated that Richet's anaphylaxis was due to the injection of any protein, whether or not it was toxic on the first injection.
www.bookrags.com /biography/charles-robert-richet   (700 words)

  
 Charles Richet Biography 1833-1886 - includes Bibliography, free ebooks
Richet was born on August 26, 1850, and educated at the University of Paris.
Richet did not sign the report and in his notes on it in the Annales des Sciences Psychiques carefully stated his conclusions as follows:
Jules-Bois, A. "Charles Richet: Father of Metaphysics.'' Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 30 (1936).
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Richet,
Richet Whatever you're looking for you can get it on eBay.
Richet, Charles Robert RICHET, CHARLES ROBERT [Richet, Charles Robert], 1850-1935, French physiologist.
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 Charles Robert Richet (1850-1935) -- HAAS 70 (2): 255 -- Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
Charles Robert Richet (1850-1935) -- HAAS 70 (2): 255 -- Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
Richet "To honour him is to honour the spirit of physiology in
II and physalia are shown, along with Albert I, Richet, and Portier
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 !Galilei - Directorio Global de Universidades
ROBERT BÁRÁNY for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus.
CHARLES ROBERT RICHET in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis.
ROBERT KOCH for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis.
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 Richet's phenomenon (www.whonamedit.com)
This was Richet's term for the sometimes fatal reaction by a sensitized individual to a second injection of an antigen.
Rosenau and Anderson drew attention to the fact that animals receiving an injection of a foreign protein became sensitive to a second dose of the same protein.
This reaction is similar to the anaphylaxis of Charles Robert Richet and the “Theobald Smith phenomenon.
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 Charles Robert Richet Winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Charles Robert Richet Winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Charles Robert Richet - anagrams (submitted by Jackson)
Charles Richet Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Winners 2002-1901 2002 The prize was awarded jointly to: SYDNEY BRENNER, H. ROBERT HORVITZ and JOHN E. SULSTON for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death.
1998 The prize was awarded jointly to: ROBERT F. IGNARRO and FERID MURAD for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system.
1968 The prize was awarded jointly to: ROBERT W. HOLLEY, HAR GOBIND KHORANA and MARSHALL W. NIRENBERG for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.
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 The Pioneers : An Anthology : Louis Charles Bréguet (1880 - 1955)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Bréguet was born in Paris in 1880 and studied electrical engineering at the Lycée Condorcet, Lycée Carnot, and the E Cole Superieure d'Electricite.
When it rose vertically from the ground with its pilot in the late summer of 1907, the Gyroplane No.1 built by Louis and Jacques Bréguet in association with Professor Charles Richet had to be steadied by a man stationed at the extremity of each of the four arms supporting the rotors.
Richet fait voler en 1896 à Carqueiranne (Var) un aéroplane à vapeur.
www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/breguet.html   (3620 words)

  
 The Hindu : Laureates in medicine: Down memory lane
1998 ROBERT F. IGNARRO and FERID MURAD for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system.
1968 ROBERT W. HOLLEY, HAR GOBIND KHORANA and MARSHALL W. NIRENBERG for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.
1914 ROBERT BARANY for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus.
www.hindu.com /thehindu/2001/10/25/stories/08250005.htm   (1919 words)

  
 Winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
CHARLES BRENTON HUGGINS for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer.
JACOUES MONOD for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis.
The prize money for 1918-1915 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
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 Tower of Babel
Charles Robert Richet - French physician, 1913 Nobel for physiology
Charles Darwin, known jointly for much thought on evolution and both Freemasons
This page was never supposed to be a disorganised, unsourced list of random influential people.
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 The Nobel Stamps of 1973
ALFRED WERNER (1866-1919), professor of chemistry at the University of Zurich, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "in recognition of his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules by which he has thrown new light on earlier investigations and opened up new fields of research especially in inorganic chemistry."
CHARLES ROBERT RICHET (1850-1935), French physiologist, professor of physiology at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis."
RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1861-1941), Indian poet and thinker; the Nobel Prize in Literature "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."
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 Wikinfo | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
1932 Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, Edgar Douglas Adrian
1968 Robert W. Holley, Har Gobind Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg
1998 Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad
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