Claude Bernard
1813–78
French physiologist. Professor of general physiology, Faculté des sciences, Paris, 1854; Muséum d’histoire naturelle, 1868. Professor of medicine, Collège de France, 1855. Made significant discoveries in digestion, neurology, and other aspects of animal physiology. Contributed to the philosophy of experimental methodology.
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DSB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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