# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-antoine-ranvier
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:58:03.938Z

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name: "Louis-Antoine Ranvier"
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description: "Louis-Antoine Ranvier was a French physician, pathologist, anatomist and histologist, who discovered the nodes of Ranvier, regularly spaced discontinuities of the myelin sheath, occurring at varying intervals along the length of a nerve fiber."
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birthDate: "1835-10-02"
deathDate: "1922-03-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump