Louis-Antoine Ranvier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Louis-Antoine Ranvier

French anatomist

Date of Birth: 02-Oct-1835

Place of Birth: Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Date of Death: 22-Mar-1922

Profession: scientist, professor, neurologist, physiologist, pathologist, anatomist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Louis-Antoine Ranvier (2 October 1835 – 22 March 1922) was a French physician, pathologist, anatomist and histologist, who discovered the nodes of Ranvier, regularly spaced discontinuities of the myelin sheath, occurring at varying intervals along the length of a nerve fiber.