# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rene-laennec
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:43:23.469Z

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name: "René Laennec"
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tagline: "French physician, inventor of stethoscope (1781-1826)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec was born on 17 February 1781 in France, trained as a medical doctor, and spent his spare time crafting wooden flutes. That woodworking skill gave him the idea in 1816, while working at the Hôpital Necker, to roll up a tube and press it to a patient's chest — the first stethoscope. He pioneered using it to diagnose chest conditions that had been guesswork before. By 1822 he was lecturing at the Collège de France, became a professor of medicine the next year, and eventually led the medical clinic at the Hôpital de la Charité. On 13 August 1826, at forty-five, he slipped into a coma and died of tuberculosis — the very kind of lung disease his invention had taught doctors to hear.