Alexis Carrel was awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for pioneering surgical techniques in vascular surgery. His triangulation technique enabled successful anastomosis of blood vessels and subsequently led to advances in blood vessel and organ transplantation. However, Alexis Carrel did not limit his research to the vascular speciality. During the First World War he developed the Carrel-Dakin method of wound irrigation and later his interests lay in aging cells.
BingRJ1987Lindberg and the biological sciences (A personal reminiscence)Texas Heart Institute Journal14(3) 230–237 Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC324729/ [Accessed December 2010]
CusimanoR, CusimanoM, CusimanoS1984The genius of Alexis CarrelCanadian Medical Association1311142–1150
7.
DutkowskiP, deRougemont O, ClavienPA2008Alexis Carrel: Genius, innovator and ideologistAmerican Journal of Transplantation8(10) 1998–2003
8.
MartyAT2002America's first Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology: The story of Guthrie and Carrel by Stephenson HE and Kimpton RSJournal of the American Medical Association288(10) 1292–1293
9.
SadeRM2005Transplantation at 100 Years: Alexis Carrel, pioneer surgeonAnnals of Thoracic Surgery802415–2418
