Charles Richet

@Scientists, Facts and Childhood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Charles Robert Richet was a French physiologist who was awarded the ‘Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine’ in 1913 French Scientists Physiologists Virgo Celebrities Charles Robert Richet was a French physiologist who was awarded the ‘Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine’ in 1913 for his research work on the serious life-threatening allergic reaction anaphylaxis. Richet was also a noted pathologist, bacteriologist and medical statistician. His other research works include examining physiology of respiration and digestion, regulation of body heat, epilepsy and work on parapsychology. He aided in elucidating issues like asthma, hay fever and many other allergic reactions caused due to exposure to foreign substances and analysed and clarified cases related to toxicity and unexpected deaths not comprehensible earlier. He was a member of the ‘Académie des Sciences’ and served as President of the ‘Society for Psychical Research’ in UK. He became honorary president and later full-time president of the ‘Institut Métapsychique International’ in Paris. He was also an enthusiast of art and literature and achieved acclamation as a distinguished playwright, novelist and poet and also had great interest in hypnosis and extrasensory perception. He remained editor of the scientific journal, ‘Revue Scientifique’ for over two decades and co-editor of ‘Journal de Physiologie et de Pathologie Générale’. He was conferred with ‘Cross of the Legion of Honour’ in 1926.

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Birthday: August 25, 1850 Died on: December 4, 1935 Nationality: French Famous: Scientists, Physiologists Universities: University of Paris Birth Place: Paris, France Gender: Male Information Detail Birthday August 25, 1850 Died on December 4, 1935 Nationality French Famous Scientists, Physiologists Universities University of Paris Birth Place Paris, France Gender Male Sun Sign Virgo Born in Paris, France Famous as Physiologist Died at Age 85

Paris, France

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He married Amélie Aubry in 1877 and the couple was blessed with five sons and two daughters. Unsplash Personal Life

On December 4, 1935, he passed away in Paris. He was 85 at the time of his death. Unsplash Personal Life

He was born on August 26, 1850, in Paris to Alfred Richet and Eugenie, née Renouard. His father was a Professor of Clinical Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine in Paris. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He completed his studies in Paris and received his Doctor of Medicine in 1869. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He had interest in literature and during his youth whenever he got bored with anatomy and surgery, he used to indulge himself in writing poetry and drama. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

As a student he assisted surgeons namely Aristide Auguste Stanislas Verneuil and Léon Clément le Fort. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

In 1872, while still studying, he became an interne des hôpitaux at the ‘Salpêtrière’ hospital in Paris. Richet was inducted as in charge of a female ward where he witnessed works of French neurologist Jean-Marie Charcot on hysterical patients. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

During 1876-82, he worked in the labs of Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot and Étienne Jules Marey at the ‘Collège de France’ and thereafter in the lab of Edmé Félix Alfred Vulpian at the ‘Faculty of Medicine’. In the lab of Charles Philippe Robin, he made investigations related to histology. He worked in a Paul Bert directed marine biological station and examined digestion in fish. Unsplash Career

In 1878 he became a Doctor of Sciences. Through his doctoral thesis, he showed that the sensory nerves that lack blood supply slowly die from the periphery towards the center. Unsplash Career

From 1878 to 1902 he served as editor of the scientific journal, ‘Revue Scientifique’. Unsplash Career

He repeated the research work on human digestion conducted by famous US surgeon William Beaumont, who became renowned as "Father of Gastric Physiology". Unsplash Career

He worked extensively for years on body heat and the function played by central nervous system in temperature control. The system of thermoregulation in homoiothermic animals was examined by him. Not much was known about procedures applied by animals lacking cutaneous transpiration to protect them from overheating as well as to get warm from cold stage prior to research work by Richet between 1885 to 1895 on shivering due to temperature and polypnoea. Unsplash Career

He received the ‘Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine’ in 1913. Unsplash Awards & Achievements

Information	Detail
Birthday	August 25, 1850
Died on	December 4, 1935
Nationality	French
Famous	Scientists, Physiologists
Universities	University of Paris
Birth Place	Paris, France
Gender	Male
Sun Sign	Virgo
Born in	Paris, France
Famous as	Physiologist
Died at Age	85

Charles Richet

French

Aug 25, 1850

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Paris, France