This MedLibrary.org supplementary page on Charles Robert Richet is provided directly from the open source Wikipedia as a service to our readers. Please see the note below on authorship of this content, as well as the Wikipedia usage guidelines. To search for other content from our encyclopedia supplement, please use the form below:
Related Sponsors
| Charles Robert Richet | |
 Vencedor do Prémio Nobel de Medicina de 1913
|
|
| Born | August 25, 1850 |
|---|---|
| Died | December 4, 1935 (aged 85) |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1913) |
Charles Robert Richet (August 25, 1850 – December 4, 1935) was a French physiologist who initially investigated a variety of subjects such as neurochemistry, digestion, thermoregulation in homeothermic animals, and breathing.
Biography
Richet was named professor of physiology at the Collège de France in 1887, and in 1898 he became a member of the Académie de Médecine. It was, however, his work on anaphylaxis (his term for the sometimes lethal reaction by a sensitized individual to a second, small-dose injection of an antigen) that in 1913 won him the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. This research helped elucidate hay fever, asthma and other allergic reactions to foreign substances and explained some cases of intoxication and sudden death not previously understood. In 1914 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences.
Richet was a man of many interests, and his works include books about history, sociology, philosophy, psychology, as well as theatre plays and poetry. He pioneered aviation. He also had a deep interest in extrasensory perception and hypnosis. In 1884 Alexander Aksakov got him interested in the medium Eusapia Palladino. In 1891 Richet founded the Annales des sciences psychiques. He kept in touch with renowned occultists and spiritist of his time such as Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, Frederic William Henry Myers and Gabriel Delanne. In 1905 he was named president of the Society for Psychical Research in the United Kingdom, and coined the terms ectoplasm and metapsychics. He experimented with Marthe Béraud, Elisabette D'Espérance, William Eglinton and Stefan Ossowiecki. He became honorary president of the Institut Métapsychique International in Paris in 1919, and full-time president in 1929.
Richet's work on this para-scientific subjects, which dominated his late years, include Traité de Métapsychique ("Treaty of Metapsychics", 1922), Notre Sixième Sens ("Our Sixth Sense", 1928), L'Avenir et la Prémonition ("The Future and Premonition", 1931), La grande espérance ("The Great Hope", 1933).
External links
- Short biography and bibliography in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
- Richet's Dictionnaire de physiologie (1895-1928) as fullscan from the original
- Charles Robert Richet photo
- Charles Richet Biography on Nobel Prize website
|
||||||||
Wikipedia content modification information:
- This page was last modified on 15 August 2008, at 06:22.
Wikipedia Authorship and Review
Wikipedia content provided here is not reviewed directly by MedLibrary.org. Wikipedia content is authored by an open community of volunteers and is not produced by or in any way affiliated with MedLibrary.org.
Wikipedia Usage Guidelines
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on "Charles Robert Richet".
The URL for this specific entry is:
All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details). Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.