Paul Portier

Paul Jules Portier (22 May 1866 to 26 January 1962) was a French physiologist who made important contributions to the discovery of anaphylaxis and the development of symbiogenesis. On a scientific expedition organised by Albert I, Prince of Monaco, he and Charles Richet discovered that toxins produced by marine animals, cnidarians such as the Portuguese man of war and the sea anemone, could induce fatal shocks. They named the medical phenomenon anaphylaxis, and Richet went on to receive the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for it. Portier was the first scientist to explain that the cell organelle called the mitochondrion arose by symbiosis, in an evolutionary theory he put forward in 1918.

Paul Jules Portier (22 May 1866 to 26 January 1962) was a French physiologist who made important contributions to the discovery of anaphylaxis and the development of symbiogenesis. On a scientific expedition organised by Albert I, Prince of Monaco, he and Charles Richet discovered that toxins produced by marine animals, cnidarians such as the Portuguese man of war and the sea anemone, could induce fatal shocks. They named the medical phenomenon anaphylaxis, and Richet went on to receive the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for it. Portier was the first scientist to explain that the cell organelle called the mitochondrion arose by symbiosis, in an evolutionary theory he put forward in 1918. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/