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| Alexis Boyer |
Alexis Boyer (1 March 1757 - 23 November 1833) was a French surgeon born in Uzerches (Correze). The son of a tailor, he obtained his first medical knowledge in the shop of a barber-surgeon. Moving to Paris he had the good fortune to attract the notice of Antoine Louis (1723-1792) and P. J. Desault (1744-1795); and his perseverance, anatomical skill and dexterity as an operator became so conspicuous, that at the age of thirty-seven he obtained the appointment of second surgeon to the Hotel Dieu of Paris. On the establishment of the École de Sante he gained the chair of operative surgery, but soon exchanged it for the chair of clinical surgery. In 1805, Napoleon nominated him to imperial family surgeon, and, after the brilliant campaigns of 1806-7, conferred on him the Legion of Honor, with the title of baron of the empire and a salary of 25,000 francs. On the fall of Napoleon the merits of Boyer secured him the favor of the succeeding sovereigns of France, and he was consulting surgeon to Louis XVIII, Charles X, and Louis Philippe. In 1825 he succeeded J. F. L. Deschamps (1740-1824) as surgeon-in-chief to the Hôpital de la Charité, and was chosen a member of the Institute. He died in Paris in 1833. Perhaps no French surgeon of his time thought or wrote with greater clearness and good sense than Boyer; and while his natural modesty made him distrustful of innovation, and somewhat tenacious of established modes of treatment, he was as judicious in his diagnosis and as cool and skillful in manipulating, as he was cautious in forming his judgment on individual cases. His two great works are Trait complet de l'anatomie (in 4 vols., 1797-1799), of which a fourth edition appeared in 1815, and Trait des maladies chirurgicales et des operations qui leur conviennent (in II vols., 1814-1826), of which a newer edition in 7 volumes was published in 1844-1853, with additions by his son, Philippe Boyer (1801-1858). (references) |
| Alexis de Boyer |
Alexis de Boyer (1757-1833), made Baron de Boyer by Napoleon, was a French anatomist and surgeon. He was a physician attendant on Napoleon, and later a professor of clinical surgery at La Charité hospital and at the University of Paris. He wrote extensively about urological affections, particularly micturition disorders, and did some of the first work in urodynamics. (references) |
| Angelique Boyer |
Angelique Boyer Rousseau (born July 4 1988) is a Mexican actress, born in Jura, France. (references) |
| Boyer Rifle |
The Boyer Rifle was a specialized over-and-under flintlock gun with one smooth gun barrel and one rifled barrel. This allowed it to be used as either a rifle or a shotgun. This variant of the Boyer rifle was created around 1800. (references) |
| Carl Benjamin Boyer |
Carl Benjamin Boyer (April 28, 1906 - April 21, 1976) was a historian of mathematics. He wrote the books History of Analytic Geometry, History of the Calculus, A History of Mathematics, and The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics. (references) |
| Claudette Boyer |
Claudette Boyer (born January 9, 1938 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1999 as a Liberal, but was later forced to leave the party as a result of legal difficulties. (references) |
| Dominique Boyer |
Dominique Boyer was the unsuccessful Liberal Party of Canada candidate in the Canadian federal election, 2004 for the riding of Laurentides--Labelle. Johanne Deschamps of the Bloc Québécois defeated her 28,675 to 14,459. (references) |
| Herbert Boyer |
Herbert (Herb) Boyer (born 1936) is a Co-recipient of the 1996 Lemelson-MIT Prize and a co-founder of Genentech. (references) |
| Jacqueline Boyer |
Jacqueline Boyer (b. April 23, 1941 as Jacqueline Ducos) French singer, daughter of performers Jacques Pils and Lucienne Boyer. (references) |
| Jacques Boyer |
Jonathan "Jacques" Boyer (October 18 1955, Utah, USA) was a professional bicycle racer who was the first American to participate in the Tour de France in 1981. Boyer grew up in Monterey, California and was a member of the Velo Club Monterey there. (references) |
| Karen Boyer |
Karen Boyer is an actress, best known for being the wife of Gene Wilder. The two were married on September 8, 1991. (references) |
| Katy Boyer |
Katy Boyer is an American actress. (references) |
| Ken Boyer |
Kenton Lloyd Boyer (May 20, 1931 - September 7, 1982) was an American All-Star third baseman and manager in Major League Baseball. Boyer batted and threw right-handed. A native of Liberty, Missouri, he played almost his entire career with the St. Louis Cardinals and later was their manager. Throughout his career with the Cardinals, Boyer wore the #14 on his uniform. (references) |
| Louis Boyer (astronomer) |
Louis Boyer was a French astronomer. Not to be confused with a famous chef of that same name. (references) |
| Lucienne Boyer |
Lucienne Boyer, born August 18, 1903 in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France - died on December 6, 1983 in Paris, was a singer. (references) |
| Marcel Boyer |
Marcel Boyer is a Canadian economist and educator. He is Bell Canada Chair in Industrial Economy[http://www.bce.ca/en/community/innovation/universityresearch/researchprojects/industrial/] and Professor of Economy at l'Université de Montréal. (references) |
| Pascal Boyer |
Pascal Boyer is an anthropologist who advocates the idea that human instincts provide us with the basis for an intuitive theory of mind that guides our social relations, morality, and predilections toward religious beliefs. Boyer and others propose that these innate mental systems make human beings predisposed to certain cultural elements such as belief in supernatural beings. (references) |
| Patrick Boyer |
Patrick Boyer (born March 4, 1945 in Bracebridge, Ontario) is a university professor and a former Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (1984-1993). (references) |
| Paul D. Boyer |
Paul Delos Boyer (born July 31, 1918) is an American biochemist. He is one of the laureates for the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
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