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...Lynn J. Carrel, Jr. of Norman, Oklahoma, and 1930 graduate of the University of Illinois will become the sales and promotion manager of the University Press effective Sunday, February...
Bren at Greeley, Colorado in 1908, Carrel comes to the University with publishing and advertising experiences at McGraw-Hill Book Company, University Books, Inc., and the University of Oklahoma Press, behind...
Paris-born Scientist-Author du Noüy was at one time a member of the Rockefeller Institute, head of biophysics at the Pasteur Institute, a director of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne. As a young officer in the French Army, he met Biologist Alexis Carrel (Man, the Unknown), under whose influence he became deeply interested in biophysics. In 1937, he attracted international attention with his book Biological Time ("Everything occurs as if sidereal time flowed four times faster for a man of 50 than for a child...
When a big artery is severed, the parallel, subsidiary blood pipelines only rarely function well enough to prevent gangrene; in the war in Tunisia, gangrene developed in 70% of severed artery cases. The standard technique of sewing severed blood vessels together, devised by the late Dr. Alexis Carrel, is successful only 40% of the time-under the best conditions. It was therefore a major medical event when Dr. Arthur H. Blakemore of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons and Dr. Jere W. Lord of Cornell University medical school found a new way of welding broken arteries that succeeds...
Died. Dr. Alexis Carrel, 71, French master surgeon and scientific philosopher (Man the Unknown), 1912 Nobel Prize winner for suturing blood vessels and transplanting living organs, collaborator with Charles Lindbergh on the "mechanical heart''; of prolonged heart trouble; in France. Son of a Lyons silk merchant, chunky, bald, beret-wearing Carrel could reputedly thrust his thumb & index finger inside a matchbox, tie a catgut knot impossible to undo with two hands. In nearest-complete secrecy, he experimented in his black-toned, dustless Manhattan laboratories, later on isolated St. Gildas Isle off France. A wit, connoisseur, inspired but abstemious...