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Jacques Ruffié
French anthropologist (1921-2004) · France · On the map · Academics · Died at 82
Jacques Ruffié was a French haematologist, geneticist, and anthropologist. He founded a discipline, called blood typing, which allowed the study of blood characteristics to find the history of the people, their migration and their successive interbreeding.
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2004Died1 July 20041994Grand Officer of the Legion of HonourAward1993Commander of the French Order of Academic PalmsAwardCommandeur des Arts et des LettresAward1987Grand prix de philosophieAward1983Prix mondial Cino Del DucaAward1982Broquette-Gonin prize in literatureAward1921Born22 November 1921
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About this person
He was a colleague and great personal friend of Michel Foucault at the College de France; Foucault mentions him in a newly discovered essay review of a book that Ruffié published in 1976, entitled De la biologie à la culture.
Country
France
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1921 to 2004 · aged 82
