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# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:37:14.352Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Alexis Carrel was born in France on 28 June 1873 and crossed the Atlantic to do most of his work in American laboratories. In 1912 he took the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing vascular suturing techniques that let surgeons reconnect severed vessels — the foundation of modern vascular surgery. With Charles Lindbergh he invented the first perfusion pump, a device meant to keep organs alive outside the body, though by the 1940s the design proved impractical and faded from use. He pushed forward work in tissue culture, transplantology, and thoracic surgery through the interwar decades. During the Vichy period he returned to France and took a leading role in implementing eugenic policies under the collaborationist government. He died on 5 November 1944.