Ten Lectures on Biochemistry of Muscle and Nerve

1904 LECTURES BY BRITISH PHYSIOLOGIST, ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF BIOCHEMISTRY--COPY OF CORNELL BIOCHEMIST. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt seal to cover of the Physiological Laboratory, University of London, physician bookplate to front paste-down, signature of B. J. Dryfuss top of title page, xiii, 160 pp, illustrations; wear to covers, front joint split, text unmarked, good+. PROVENANCE: B. J. DRYFUSS, Chemical Laboratory, Cornell University. LAID IN, pencil notes by Dryfuss on Cornell letterhead. WILLIAM DOBINSON HALLIBURTON (1860 - 1931) was a British physiologist, noted for being one of the founders of the science of biochemistry. During his tenure at King's College, he assembled a research team, many of whom later became distinguished clinicians, including such figures as Thomas Gregor Brodie (1866-1916), Frank S. Locke, Sir Charles James Martin (1866-1955), Sir Frederick Walker Mott (1853 - 1926), Walter Ernest Dixon (1871 - 1931), Sigmund Otto Rosenheim (1871 - 1955) and Corrado Donato Da Fano (1879-1927). He and Rosenheim discovered that cholesterol was not pure, but contained ergosterol which led to the formation of Vitamin D under ultraviolet light. Halliburton's first laboratory was improvised in a disused corridor, but nonetheless became the meeting place of the keenest minds in the infant science of biochemistry. His early research centered on the proteins making up muscle and blood, leading to his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1891. Together with Walter Ernest Dixon he studied cerebral circulation and cerebrospinal fluid. During this time he helped found the Biochemical Society of which he was the sole honorary member.

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Year: 1904

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