- ALEXSIS
CARREL, M.D.
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- NOBEL
LAUREATE WHO LAID FOUNDATION FOR VASCULAR AND TRANSPLANTATION
SURGERY
 Alexis Carrel (1873-1944). French-born, American Physician & Nobel Laureate
in Physiology or Medicine (1912). Typed Letter Signed, one
page, octavo, October 8, 1937, on official "THE ROCKEFELLER
INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH" letterhead, New York. A
short letter arranging a meeting with a colleague. Signed: "Yours
very sincerely, Alexis Carrel". Specializing in Surgery,
Carrel began experimental work in this subject in Lyons in 1902,
but in 1904 he went to Chicago and in 1905 worked in the Department
of Physiology in the University of Chicago under Professor G.
N. Stewart. In 1906 he was attached to the Rockefeller Institute
for Medical Research, New York, as an Associate Member, becoming
a Full Member in 1912. In this Institute he carried out most
of the experiments which earned him, in 1912, the Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine.It is of historical interest that Charles
Lindbergh the famous aviator worked in Carrel's lab and together
they built the first perfusion pump to keep tissues and organs
outside the body. A nice letter on the letterhead from where
he obtained the Nobel Prize. Normal aging, folds, pencil notation
in another's hand on upper right, otherwise in fine condition.
A nice sample on the Carrel letters are scarce. $1,200. (#10522) |
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