Eugenics row inflames vote on faculty name

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Paris. The University of Claude Bernard in Lyons, France, is to vote on a controversial motion to remove posthumously from its faculty of medicine the name of Alexis Carrel, winner of the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1912, following new evidence that he may have belonged to France's main fascist party around the Second World War. Carrel's prominent role in the eugenics movement, in particular in the United States before the war, is no secret. But the winner of the Nobel prize for work on organ transplantation and cell culture is now alleged also to have been a member of the Parti Populaire Frangais (PPF).