Alexis Carrel's Birth Card: The 2 of Clubs

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Alexis Carrel (French: [alɛksi kaʁɛl]; 28 June 1873 – 5 November 1944) was a French surgeon and biologist who spent most of his scientific career in the United States. The birth-card coordinate for June 28 is the 2 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1912 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1912 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs

The 2 of Clubs coordinate

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Alexis Carrel in the public record

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques. He invented the first perfusion pump with Charles Lindbergh opening the way to organ transplantation. In later time however, it was acknowledged that Carrel and Lindbergh's version of the perfusion pump, which initially had media prominence, was impractical and difficult to use, and would lose influence by the 1940s. Carrel was also a pioneer in tissue culture, transplantology and thoracic surgery. He is known for his leading role in implementing eugenic policies in Vichy France. Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône, Carrel was raised in a devout Catholic family and was educated by Jesuits, though he had become an agnostic by the time he became a university student. He studied medicine at the University of Lyon. Working as an intern at a Lyon hospital, he developed a technique for suturing small blood vessels using extremely fine needles.

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Alexis Carrel (French: [alɛksi kaʁɛl]; 28 June 1873 – 5 November 1944) was a French surgeon and biologist who spent most of his scientific career in the United States.

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Also on the record

1. He published his first scientific article about this method in 1902.
2. In 1902, Carrel underwent a transformative experience that led him from being a skeptic of the reported visions and miracles at Lourdes to a believer in spiritual cures.
3. This conversion came about after he witnessed the inexplicable healing of Marie Bailly, who then identified Carrel as the principal witness of her cure.
4. Despite facing opposition from his peers in the medical community, Carrel refused to dismiss a supernatural explanation for the event.

Other laureates with this card

• Adam G. Riess — 2011 Physics
• Albert Claude — 1974 Physiology or Medicine
• Auguste Beernaert — 1909 Peace
• Brian Kobilka — 2012 Chemistry
• Charles B. Huggins — 1966 Physiology or Medicine
• Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
• Edmund S. Phelps — 2006 Economic Sciences
• Elfriede Jelinek — 2004 Literature
• F. Sherwood Rowland — 1995 Chemistry
• George Bernard Shaw — 1925 Literature
• George Wald — 1967 Physiology or Medicine
• Hannes Alfvén — 1970 Physics
• 11 more laureates share this card.

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