John Scott Burdon-Sanderson

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John Burdon-Sanderson, 1881
Bust of Burdon-Sanderson in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, 1st Baronet (born December 21, 1828 in Jesmond near Newcastle upon Tyne , England, † November 23, 1905 in Oxford ) was an English physiologist .

Live and act

Burdon-Sanderson studied medicine from 1847 at the University of Edinburgh , which he completed in 1851 with a doctorate to MD. This was followed by studying chemistry with Charles Frédéric Gerhardt and Charles Adolphe Wurtz in Paris and listening to lectures with Claude Bernard .

He became a medical registrar at St Mary's Hospital on Praed Street in London in 1854 . From 1856 to 1867 he was Medical Officer of Health for Paddington . In 1860 he received the title of Inspector in the Medical Department .

In 1870 he became professor of practical physiology and histology at University College London, succeeding Michael Foster . From 1874 to 1883 he was there Jodrell Professor of Human Physiology as the successor to William Sharpey . From 1871 to 1878, Burdon-Sanderson was professor superintendent of the newly established Brown Institution , the first pathology laboratory in England.

In 1882 he became Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Oxford University ; from 1895 to 1904 he was regius professor for medicine there . In 1893 he became President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science .

Burdon-Sanderson died in Oxford on November 23, 1905. He was buried at Wolvercote Cemetery in Wolvercote , a suburb of Oxford. Since his marriage to Ghetal Herschell (1833–1909), which he entered into in 1853, remained childless, his title of nobility expired upon his death.

Honors

In 1867 he was accepted as a member (" Fellow ") in the Royal Society , which in 1883 awarded him the Royal Medal . Twice (1874–1875 and again 1894–1895) he was vice president of this society. The Royal Society of Edinburgh accepted him in 1884 as an Honorary Fellow . In 1899 he was given the hereditary title of Baronet , of Banbury Road in the Parish of Saint Giles in the City of Oxford. In 1900 he was elected as a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences and the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences . He was also a member of the Royal College of Physicians .

Works

  • John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, E. Klein, Michael Foster & T. Lauder Brunton (1873): Handbook for the Physiological Laboratory. London
  • John Scott Burdon-Sanderson (1875): Remarks in the Discussion on the Germ Theory of Disease. Transactions of the Pathological Society 26: 284-289
  • John Scott Burdon-Sanderson (1875): The Occurrence of Organic Forms in Connection with Contagious and Infective Diseases. British Medical Journal 1: 69-71, 199-201, 403-405, 435-437
  • John Scott Burdon-Sanderson (1882): On the Electromotive Properties of the Leaf of Dionaea in the Excited and Unexcited States [1881] . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 173: 1-55

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For more information on this institute, see the article on Citizendium .
  2. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  3. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter B. Académie des sciences, accessed on September 30, 2019 (French).
  4. ^ Members of the previous academies. Sir John Burdon-Sanderson. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 4, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Burdon-Sanderson, John Scott
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burdon-Sanderson, Sir John Scott, 1st Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Jesmond near Newcastle upon Tyne , England
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1905
Place of death Oxford