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OR ALEXIS GARREL (Rec. 8 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 5. The death has occurred in Paris of Dr Alexis Carrel, aged 71. ;. [Dr Carrel, who was born at Sainte-Foy-les-Lyon, in France, went to Canada in 1904, and to the United States in 1905. He was attached to the staff of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. New York, from 1906 to 1912: was a member of the Institute from then until 1939. and member emiritus thereafter. He was engaged on a special war mission for the French Ministry of Public Health from the outbreak until the fall of France. In 1912 he won the Nobel Prize for medicine for success in suturing blood vessels and transplantation of organs, and in 1931 he won the Nordhoff-jung Cancer Prize. He also gained many other awards both in America and abroad. He published several works on medical, biological, and surgical subjects.]
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Evening Star, Issue 25325, 6 November 1944, Page 6
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