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Emil du Bois-Reymond
Emil Heinrich du Bois-Reymond was a German physiologist, the co-discoverer of nerve action potential, and the developer of experimental electrophysiology. His lectures on science and culture earned him great esteem during the latter half of the 19th century.
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science · German physician and physiologist (1818–1896) · physician · physiologist · university teacher · physicist · zoologist · neurologist · also Emil du Bois-Reymond, Reymond Dubois, Emil Heinrich du Bois-Reymond, E. Du Bois-Reymond, Bois-Reymond
Born 7 November 1818 · Died 26 December 1896 · Q76571
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Where and under what form life first appeared, whether at the bottom of the deep sea, as bathybius protoplasm, or whether with the co-operation of the still excessive ultra-violet solar rays, with still higher pressure of carbonic acid in the atmosphere, who can tell?
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1936· 2 entries
His argument was repeated by George Sarton in a lecture inaugurating a seminary in the history of science at Harvard University:Definition
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“and the history of science the essential history of humanity.”
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1902· 1 entry
By du Bois-Reymond's student Julius Bernstein, who incorporated parts of both theories into an ionic model of action potential
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1896· 2 entries
Died 1896-12-26.
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“Where and under what form life first appeared, whether at the bottom of the deep sea, as bathybius protoplasm, or whether with the co-operation of the still excessive ultra-violet solar rays, with still higher pressure of carbonic acid in the atmosphere, who can tell?”
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1892· 2 entries
Won Helmholtz Medal (1892).
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Was awarded honorary membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in recognition of this work
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1882· 1 entry
Du Bois-Reymond dismissed Goethe's science as the muddled product of a bygone era
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1880· 1 entry
Du Bois-Reymond delivered a speech to the Berlin Academy of Sciences enumerating seven "world riddles" or "shortcomings" of science:
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1877· 4 entries
Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1877).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1877).
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The Prussian government granted his wish and provided him with a modern physiological laboratory
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Du Bois-Reymond presented a view of the past that highlighted science as the sole endeavor that demonstrated any improvement
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1873· 1 entry
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1873).
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1858· 1 entry
Upon the death of Johannes Müller, the professorship of anatomy and physiology at the University of Berlin was divided into a professorship of human and comparative anatomy, which was given to Karl Bogislaus Reichert (18
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1852· 1 entry
While living alone and unable to get a professorship he traveled to England and met his second cousin Jeannette Claude, whom he courted and married in 1853
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1851· 1 entry
Du Bois-Reymond was admitted to the Academy of Sciences of Berlin, and in 1876 he became its perpetual secretary
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1849· 1 entry
Helping publicize du Bois-Reymond's findings to a broader audience:
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1840· 1 entry
Müller made du Bois-Reymond his assistant in physiology, and as the beginning of an inquiry gave him a copy of the essay which the Italian physicist Carlo Matteucci had just published on the electric phenomena of animals
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1837· 1 entry
Studied at Französisches Gymnasium Berlin (1837).
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1818· 1 entry
Born 1818-11-07.
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