Posted on June 28, 2021
Key Points
This is an update of my post published June 28, 2010:
Carrel worked for a decade on experimental animals and managed to develop every technique used in vascular (blood vessel) surgery today.
He also worked on keeping tissue alive after it is removed from a living organism—this technology really helps with transplants—and even succeeded in keeping alive tissue from the heart of a chicken embryo for 35 years!
The yucky part of Carrel’s life was during World War II. Carrel may have liked and supported the Nazis. You might remember that, under Hitler, Germany attacked and took over France; during the time when the Nazis occupied France, it was called “Vichy France.” Of course, many French people worked for the resistance and tried to hinder or even stop the Nazis in little and big ways. However, some French people went along with the Nazis and willingly implemented their awful-terrible-no-good-very-bad ideas. These Nazi enablers were later called collaborators, and some were shamed or exiled or executed, while others were tried in court and, if found guilty of collaboration, served time in prison.
Carrel was accused of collaboration but died (at age 71) before his trial.
Also on this date:
Carolina Day
Anniversary of the death of King Alboin
- June holidays
- June birthdays
- Historical anniversaries in June
- July holidays
- July birthdays
- Historical anniversaries in July
