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Born October 17, 1833 • Auxerre • France
Died November 11, 1886 (aged 53) • Hanoi
Notable Works “Barometric Pressure: Researches in Experimental Physiology”
Subjects Of Study barotrauma • decompression sickness

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André F. Cournand
American physiologist
Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Jules Hoffmann
Jules Hoffmann
French immunologist
Jean Dausset.
Jean Dausset
French hematologist and immunologist
François Jacob, 1965.
François Jacob
French biologist
Nicolle, Charles-Jules-Henri
Charles-Jules-Henri Nicolle
French bacteriologist
Lwoff, 1965
André Lwoff
French biologist
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Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens
French physiologist
Bichat, detail of an engraving
Marie-François-Xavier Bichat
French anatomist and physiologist
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Henri Dutrochet
French physiologist
Luc Montagnier
Luc Montagnier
French scientist
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Jacques Monod
French biochemist
Alexis Carrel.
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist
Roger Guillemin
Roger Guillemin
American physiologist
Laveran
Alphonse Laveran
French physician and pathologist
Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard
Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard
French physiologist
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Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis
French philosopher and physiologist
Magendie, detail of a lithograph by Gregoire and Deneux
François Magendie
French physiologist
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
French virologist
Charles Richet.
Charles Richet
French physiologist

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