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French surgeon Alexis Carrel publishes a eugenics book funded by the Rockefeller Institute.

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Carrel, the "father" of vascular suturing and a winner of the Nobel Prize in 1912, publishes his bestseller Man, the Unknown while working at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. The book advocates for the use of gas chambers to kill those perceived as "criminals" and the "mentally ill" for the purposes of population control.