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John Scott Haldane
John Scott Haldane was a Scottish physician physiologist and philosopher famous for his often-dangerous self-experimentation that led to many important discoveries about the human body and the nature of gases. He also experimented on his son, the celebrated and polymathic biologist J. B. S. Haldane, even when he was quite young. Haldane locked himself in sealed chambers breathing potentially letha…
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science · British physiologist and researcher (1860–1936) · inventor · physiologist · philosopher · physician · also John Scott Haldane, J. S. Haldene, Haldane
Born 3 May 1860 · Died 15 March 1936 · Q559029
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2026· 5 entries
dailynewsngr.com.ng: Policy, Capital and the Road to Nigeria’s Real Estate & Hospitality Boom — Haldane McCall GMD/CEO, Dr Akinlade
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Traders Union: Daniela Gabor: Andy Haldane links fiscal policy and productivity shift since 2017 speech
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Mid Hudson News: Legislators commend Putnam Youth Bureau and Haldane School District
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TheNewswire: Silver North Continues Haldane Drilling and Commences Veronica Exploration, Yukon
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1936· 1 entry
Died 1936-03-15.
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1934· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1934).
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1928· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (1928).
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1916· 2 entries
Awarded Silliman Memorial Lectures (1916).
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Won Royal Medal (1916).
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1911· 1 entry
Which examined the effect of low atmospheric pressure on respiration
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1908· 1 entry
Haldane published the findings with A
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1907· 1 entry
Haldane had a decompression chamber made at the Lister Institute for his experimental work which was to help make underwater diving safer and produced the first decompression tables using his concept of stage decompressi
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1897· 1 entry
Was a Royal Medallist of the Society in 1916, was appointed Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1928 for work on industrial disease, and was a Copley Medallist in 1934
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1884· 1 entry
After which he was a Demonstrator at University College, Dundee
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1860· 1 entry
Born 1860-05-03.
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