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Sir William Maddock Bayliss
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Born May 2, 1860 • Wolverhampton • England
Died August 27, 1924 (aged 64) • London • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1919)
Notable Works “Principles of General Physiology”
Subjects Of Study digestion • hemopiezometer • hormone • pancreas • peristalsis • secretin • secretion • shock • trypsin • wound
Starling
Ernest Henry Starling
British physiologist
Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer.
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer
British physiologist and inventor
Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist
Martin Evans
Martin Evans
British scientist
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
British biochemist
Rodney Robert Porter
British biochemist
Sir John Robert Vane
British biochemist
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Stephen Hales
Stephen Hales
English scientist
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
British biophysicist
A.V. Hill, detail of a pencil drawing by F.W. Schmin, 1923
A.V. Hill
British physiologist and biophysicist
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
British physiologist
Sir Henry Dale, 1956.
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
William Prout
British chemist

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