John Newport Langley

John Newport Langley (born November 2, 1852 in Newbury, Berkshire , England, † November 5, 1925 in Cambridge ) was a British physiologist and histologist .

Life

Langley attended Exeter Grammar School and then St John's College at Cambridge University . He received the Bachelor of Arts in 1875 , the Magister Artium in 1878 and the ScD in 1896. Langley was in 1877 and again by re-election in 1885 "Fellow" of Trinity College, Cambridge University . He was a lecturer at that college . At Cambridge University , Langley was a lecturer from 1883 to 1903 , then from 1903 to 1925 professor of physiology.

Langley introduced the term autonomous nervous system in 1898 .

In 1883 Langley was elected as a member (" Fellow ") in the Royal Society , which awarded him the Royal Medal in 1892 and whose Vice President he later became. Langley was a member of the Neurological Society of Great Britain and its president in 1893. From 1913 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

A course of elementary practical physiology and histology . 1888, 1896, 1899
The Autonomic Nervous System . 1903, 1905, 1921
Experimental Physiology . 1910
Practical Histology . 1901; 3rd ed. 1920
On the reaction of cells and of nerve endings to certain poisons, chiefly as regards the reaction of striated muscle to nicotine and to curari . In: The Journal of Physiology 33, 374-413, 1905.
Croonian Lecture. - On nerve endings and on special excitable substances in cells . Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 78, 170-194, 1906.