William Bayliss
Sir William Maddock Bayliss (born May 2, 1860 in Butcroft, Wednesbury / Staffordshire , today in Sandwell , † August 27, 1924 in London ) was a British physiologist and pioneer of endocrinology .
Life
William Bayliss was born the son of an industrialist whose business he later carried on. He attended the Mowbray House School in Wolverhampton before he began training as a doctor, first as an apprentice to a general practitioner , then at the local hospital, which he broke off. From 1881 to 1884 he studied a. a. Zoology , anatomy , physics and physiology at University College London before moving to Wadham College in Oxford in 1885 , where he received a PhD in physiology three years later. After his return to London he held an assistant professorship from 1903, and in 1912 he was appointed professor of general physiology .
He was married to Gertrude Starling, Ernest Starling's sister . The couple had four children.
power
Together with Ernest Starling, Bayliss discovered the hormone secretin in 1902 . The two scientists also jointly discover the peristalsis of the digestive tract . The Bayliss effect was also first described by William Bayliss.
At the beginning of the 20th century he was involved in the Browndog affair when there was public protests on the occasion of a vivisection of a dog by Bayliss.
Honors (selection)
In 1903 Bayliss was accepted into the Royal Society , whose Copley Medal he received in 1919. He was knighted in 1922.
Works
- The mechanism of pancreatic secretion . 1902
- The chemical regulation of the secretory process . 1904
- The Nature of Enzyme Action . 1908
- Principles of General Physiology . 1915
- The Vaso-Motor System . 1923
literature
- JB: Obituary Notices of Fellows Deceased. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 99, 1926, pp. 27-32, doi : 10.1098 / rspb.1926.0022 .
- John Henderson: Ernest Starling and 'Hormones': an historical commentary. In: Journal of Endocrinology. 184, 2005, pp. 5-10, doi : 10.1677 / joe.1.06000 .
- Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Bayliss, Sir William Maddock. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 156 f.
Web links
- Short biography and digital sources in full text (English) in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bayliss, William |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bayliss, William Maddock (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wednesbury |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 27, 1924 |
| Place of death | London |