Charles Robert Richet (1850-1935)

Charles Robert Richet (1850-1935): discoverer of anaphylaxis.

BACKGROUND Charles Robert Richet was born in 1850, the year Herman von Helmholtz of Germany invented the ophthalmoscope. Shaped by a father who was chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Paris Faculty of Medicine and a maternal grandfather who was a liberal journalist, Charles developed a lifelong love of learning Latin, sailing, politics, literature and the arts. To please his surgeon fa...

Charles Robert Harington, 1897-1972.

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Charles Robert (Bob) Schuster: 1930-2011.

Charles Robert (Bob) Schuster was born and grew up in New Jersey across the Delaware from Philadelphia. His father was a grocer–butcher, his gracious and delightful mother sang in the choir, and there was never a doubt that Bob revered his older sister. He learned to play the trumpet early and had great affection for jazz throughout his life. Nothing would portend the dedicated public health ad...

Brain, mind, and medicine: Charles Richet and the origins of physiological psychology

that time not given the credit that they now receive. Garrod was an individual who was far ahead of his time. He owed much to fellow scientists such as Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, whom he had known at Guy's Hospital before he went to Cambridge. There was also a close affinity between his own ideas and those of J. B. S. Haldane. On a personal level it is not surprising that in later life he b...

Cxciv. Synthesis of Glutathione. by Charles Robert Harington