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Louis ANTOTNE RANVIER, the eminent French histologist, was born at Lyons on October 2, 1835. His medical education took place in Paris, where he qualified in 1865, and two years later became Claude Bernard's assistant at the College de France. In 1875 he was appointed to the chair of general anatomy in the Paris faculty of medicine, and held this appointment for more than thirty years. In 1886 he was elected a member of the Paris Academy of Medicine and in the following year a member of the Academy of Sciences. He also became a member of numerous foreign academies and learned societies.
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Louis Ranvier, 1835–1922. Nature 136, 507 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136507b0
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