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John S. Haldane

    John Scott Haldane was a pioneering Scottish physiologist renowned for his intrepid self-experimentation. His daring studies, often involving dangerous gases and extreme conditions, yielded crucial insights into human physiology and the nature of gases. Haldane's investigations extended to mine safety and the effects of atmospheric pressure, leading to practical inventions like the first gas mask and improved safety protocols for divers. His rigorous scientific approach and commitment to understanding the body's response to environmental challenges left a lasting legacy in physiology and occupational health.

    Mechanism, life and personality
    Respiration
    • Respiration

      • 472 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      Scottish physiologist John Scott Haldane (1860-1936) helped find out how to determine the regulation of breathing and discovered the "Haldane effect" in haemaglobin. At that time his discoveries revolutionized current ideas about respiration. Haldane was also the inventor of the gas-mask during World War I. Between 1907 and 1913 he gave lectures in Physiology at Oxford. Beside honorary degrees from many universities, John Scott Haldane was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1897. His philosophical ideas were mainly developed in the last two decades of his life and published in books like "The Sciences and Philosophy" and "The Philosophical Basis of Biology." Haldane was the founder of "The Journal of Hygiene."

      Respiration
    • Scottish physiologist John Scott Haldane (1860–1936) helped find out how to determine the regulation of breathing and discovered the “Haldane effect” in haemaglobin. At that time his discoveries revolutionized current ideas about respiration. Haldane was also the inventor of the gas-mask during World War I. Between 1907 and 1913 he gave lectures in Physiology at Oxford. Beside honorary degrees from many universities, John Scott Haldane was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1897. His philosophical ideas were mainly developed in the last two decades of his life and published in books like “The Sciences and Philosophy” and “The Philosophical Basis of Biology”. Haldane was the founder of “The Journal of Hygiene”.

      Mechanism, life and personality