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Something wrong?He won a Nobel for discovering anaphylaxis - the body's violent overreaction to a second exposure - then spent decades chasing ghosts, invented the word "ectoplasm", and ended his career presiding over France's eugenics movement.
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Father: Alfred RichetAbout this person
Charles Robert Richet trained as a physiologist at the Collège de France, where his work on immune responses led to the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for identifying anaphylaxis. But his curiosity didn't stop at the lab bench: he devoted years to investigating paranormal and spiritualist phenomena, coining "ectoplasm" along the way. He also believed in racial hierarchy and championed eugenics, eventually serving as president of the French Eugenics Society late in life. The Richet name carried forward through his son Charles and grandson Gabriel, the latter becoming a founder of European nephrology.
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