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Paul Broca
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French physician, anatomist and anthropologist (1824-1880)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1824
- Died
- 1880
- Works
- 49
Top works
- Sur le siége de la faculté du langage articulé avec deux observations d'aphémie (perte de la parole)
- Traité de médecine de A. C. Celse
- Eloge funèbre de Pierre Gratiolet
- Études sur les animaux ressuscitants
- Sur le volume et la forme du cerveau suivant les individus et suivant les races
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations
· 1958 · cited 70,570x
- “Mini-mental state”
· 1975 · cited 67,716x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 45,419x
- Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 44,683x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,522x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1824-06-28 ) 28 June 1824, Sainte-Foy-la-Grande , Gironde , France
- Died
- 9 July 1880 (1880-07-09) (aged 56), Paris , France
- Known for
- Broca's area , Broca's aphasia , Diagonal band of Broca
- Fields
- Anthropology , Anatomy , Medicine
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Described at
Paul Broca - Les Amis de Sainte Foy et sa Région
Paul Broca - Portrait, Publication -
saintefoylagrandehistoire.com →Link to a page describing this subject · 6,591 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Doctoral student
- Charles Mantoux
- Image
- Paul Broca by Pierre Petit.png
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- Commons category
- Paul Broca
- date of birth
- 1824-06-28
- date of death
- 1880-07-09
- name in native language
- Paul Broca
- birth name
- Paul Pierre Broca
- described at URL
- www.saintefoylagrandehistoire.com/portrait/paul-broca
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Paul Pierre Broca (/ˈbroʊkə/, also UK: /ˈbrɒkə/, US: /ˈbroʊkɑː/, French: [pɔl bʁɔka]; 28 June 1824 – 9 July 1880) was a French physician, anatomist and anthropologist. He is best known for his research on Broca's area, a region of the frontal lobe that is named after him. Broca's area is involved with language. His work revealed that the brains of patients with aphasia contained lesions in a particular part of the cortex, in the left frontal region. This was the first anatomical proof of localization of brain function.
Broca's work contributed to the development of physical anthropology, advancing the science of anthropometry, and craniometry, in particular, the now-discredited practice of determining intelligence. He was engaged in comparative anatomy of primates and humans and proposed that Negroes were an intermediate form between apes and Europeans. He saw each racial group as its own species and believed racial mixing eventually led to sterility.