Charles Robert Richet (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl ʁɔbɛʁ ʁiʃɛ]; 25 August 1850 – 4 December 1935) was a French physiologist at the Collège de France and immunology pioneer. In 1913, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis". Richet devoted many years to the study of paranormal and spiritualist phenomena, coining the term "ectoplasm". He believed in the inferiority of black people, was a proponent of eugenics, and presided over the French Eugenics Society towards the end of his life. The Richet line of professorships of medical science continued through his son Charles and his grandson Gabriel. Gabriel Richet was also one of the pioneers of European nephrology. (From Wikipedia) More about Charles Richet:
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| | Books by Charles Richet: Richet, Charles, 1850-1935, contrib.: Metapsychical Phenomena: Methods and Observations (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons; London: Duckworth and Co., 1905), by J. Maxwell, trans. by L. I. Finch, also contrib. by Oliver Lodge
Additional books by Charles Richet in the extended shelves: Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Abrégé d'histoire générale. (Librairie Hachette, 1919) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Abrégé d'histoire générale. Essai sur le passé de l'homme et des sociétés humaines. (Librairie Hachette, 1919) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Allgemeine Kulturgeschichte; Versuch einer Geschichte der Menschheit von den ältesten Tagen bis zur Gegenwart. (Verlag für Kulturpolitik, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Anaphylaxis (University Press, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Archives slaves de biologie. ([s.n.], 1886), also by Henry de Varigny and Maurice Mendelssohn (page images at HathiTrust) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Bibliographia medica; recueil mensuel. (Institut de bibliographie, 1900), also by Henri de Rothschild, Pierre Carle Édouard Potain, Maurice Georges Debove, and Marcel Baudouin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Bibliographia physiologica (F. Alcan [etc., 1897), also by Zürich Concilium bibliographicum (page images at HathiTrust) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Cours de physiologie, programme sommaire. (Bureaux des revues, 1891) (page images at HathiTrust) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: De la suggestion mentale. (Doin, 1887), also by Julian Ochorowicz (page images at HathiTrust) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Der Mensch ist Dumm! : satirische Bilder aus der Geschichte der menschlichen Dummheiten (E. Berger & Co., 1922) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Des propriétés chimiques et physiologiques du suc gastrique chez l'homme et chez les animaux. (G. Baillière, 1878) (page images at HathiTrust) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Dictionnaire de physiologie (F. Alcan, 1895) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Die Vergangenheit des Krieges und die Zukunft des Friedens (H.Minden, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Die vergangenheit des krieges und die zukunft des friedens. (Österreichische friedensgesellschaft, 1909), also by Bertha von Suttner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Du suc gastric chez l'homme et les animaux, ses propriétés chimiques et physiologiques (G. Baillière, 1878) (page images at HathiTrust) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Essai de psychologie générale (F. Alcan, 1891) (page images at HathiTrust) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Fabeln von Charles Richet. (Gebrüder Paetel (Dr. G. Paetel), 1914), also by Sully Prudhomme, Rudolf Berger, and Armand Hoche (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Genikēs psychologias (Ekdot. Oikos Geōrgiou D. Phexē, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Idiot man; or, The follies of mankind ("L'homme stupide") (T.W. Laurie, Ltd., 1925) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: La chaleur animale : (F. Alcan, 1889) (page images at HathiTrust) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: La circulation du sang; traduction française (G. Masson, 1879), also by William Harvey (page images at HathiTrust) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: La physiologie et la médecine : leçon d'ouverture du cours de physiologie de la Faculté de médecine de Paris (Quantain, 1888) (page images at HathiTrust) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: La science française : Descartes, Lavoisier, Pasteur, conférence donnée à l'Université de Christiana, Janvier 1916. Le Courage : discours prononcé à la Douma de Moscou décembre 1915 (Paris : É́ditions de la Revue politique et littéraire (Revue bleue) et de la Revue scientifique, 1916) (page images at HathiTrust) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: L'anaphylaxie (Alcan, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Le savant (Hachette, 1923) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: L'homme et l'intelligence; fragments de physiologie et de psychologie (F. Alcan, 1884) (page images at HathiTrust) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Manuel de l'enseignement primaire (Ch. Delagrave, 1888), also by Joseph Reinach (page images at HathiTrust) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Notre sixième sens. (Éditions Montaigne, 1928) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Physiologie. (F. Alcan, 1896), also by France) Société de biologie (Paris (page images at HathiTrust) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Physiologie (Alcan, 1893) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Physiologie (Alcan, 1893) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Physiologie des muscles et des nerfs, leçons professées à la Faculté de médecine en 1881. (Baillière, 1882) (page images at HathiTrust) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Physiology and histology of the cerebral convolutions. Also, Poisons of the intellect (W. Wood & co., 1879), also by Edward P. Fowler (page images at HathiTrust) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: The Pros and Cons of Vivisection, contrib. by W. D. Halliburton (Gutenberg ebook) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Recherches experimentales et cliniques sur la sensibilité. (Masson., 1877) (page images at HathiTrust) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Structure des circonvolutions cérébrales : (anatomie et physiologie) ... (Germer Baillière et Cie., 1878) (page images at HathiTrust) Richet, Charles, 1850-1935: Thirty years of psychical research : being a treatise on metapsychics (Macmillan Co., 1923) (page images at HathiTrust)
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