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First Transplant Surgeon, The: The Flawed Genius Of Nobel Prize Winner, Alexis Carrel

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

First Transplant Surgeon, The: The Flawed Genius Of Nobel Prize Winner, Alexis Carrel

By David Hamilton

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About the book

This is a new account, of how, in the early 1900s, the French-born surgeon Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) set the groundwork for the later success in human organ transplantation, and gained America's first Nobel Prize in 1912. His other contributions were the first operations on the heart, and the first cell culture methods. He was prominent in military surgery in WW1, and in the 1930s, gained further fame when collaborating with the aviator Charles Lindbergh on an organ perfusion pump.But controvers...Show more

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9789814699372

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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd

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2016

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First Transplant Surgeon, The: The Flawed Genius Of Nobel Prize Winner, Alexis Carrel

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