Died 1935-12-04.
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Charles Richet
Charles Robert Richet was a French physiologist at the Collège de France and immunology pioneer. In 1913, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis". Richet devoted many years to the study of paranormal and spiritualist phenomena, coining the term "ectoplasm". He believed in the inferiority of black people, was a proponent of eugenics, and presided…
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science · French physiologist, Nobel laureate and spiritualist (1850–1935) · physician · psychologist · Esperantist · physiologist · immunologist · researcher · playwright · writer · also Charles Richet, Charles Robert Richet, Robert-Charles Richet, Charles Épheyre, Richet
Born 26 August 1850 · Died 4 December 1935 · Q214851
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1935· 1 entry
1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1933–1933).
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1926· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (1926).
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1920· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (1920–1926).
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1919· 1 entry
Richet became honorary chairman of the Institut Métapsychique International in Paris, and, in 1930, its full-time president
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1918· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (1918–1923).
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1915· 1 entry
Awarded prix de poésie de l'Académie française (1915).
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1914· 1 entry
Became a member of the Académie des Sciences
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1913· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1913).
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Won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis"
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Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work
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1905· 1 entry
Richet was named president of the Society for Psychical Research in the United Kingdom
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1902· 4 entries
Which Richet led, together with Lucien Le Foyer as secretary-general
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Pacifist societies began to meet at a National Peace Congress, often with several hundred attendees
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Repeated the injections in their laboratory and found that dogs normally tolerated the toxin at first injection, but when given subsequent injections three weeks later, they always developed fatal shock, regardless
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Richet coined the term aphylaxis to describe the phenomenon; he later changed it to anaphylaxis because he thought it was more euphonious
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1901· 1 entry
Joined Albert I, Prince of Monaco on a scientific expedition around the French coast of Atlantic Ocean
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1898· 1 entry
Became a member of the Académie de Médecine
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1894· 1 entry
Richet coined the term ectoplasm
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1893· 1 entry
Awarded Montyon Prize (1893).
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1891· 1 entry
Richet founded the Annales des sciences psychiques
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1887· 1 entry
Richet became professor of physiology at the Collège de France investigating a variety of subjects such as neurochemistry, digestion, thermoregulation in homeothermic animals, and breathing
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1884· 1 entry
Alexandr Aksakov interested him in the medium of Eusapia Palladino
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1850· 1 entry
Born 1850-08-26.
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