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John Scott Haldane

British physiologist (1860–1936)

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John Scott Haldane was a Scottish physician physiologist and philosopher famous for his often-dangerous self-experimentation that led to many important discoveries about the human body and the nature of gases. He also experimented on his son, the celebrated and polymathic biologist J. B. S. Haldane, even when he was quite young. Haldane locked himself in sealed chambers breathing potentially lethal cocktails of gases while recording their effect on his mind and body.

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Occupation: inventor, physiologist, philosopher, physician
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Born: May 3, 1860
Died: March 15, 1936

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Louisa Kathleen Trotterspouse J.B.S. Haldanechild Naomi Mitchisonchild Robert Haldanefather Mary Elizabeth Haldanemother Elizabeth Haldanesibling

Mechanism, life and personality; an examination of the mechanistic theory of life and mindknown for Methods of investigating quantitatively the heat production and the respiratory exchange of material in animalsknown for Haldane's decompression modelknown for Organism and environment as illustrated by the physiology of breathingknown for The new physiology and other addressesknown for Mechanism, life and personality ; an examination of the mechanistic theory of life and mindknown for

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John Scott Haldane was a Scottish physician physiologist and philosopher famous for his often-dangerous self-experimentation that led to many important discoveries about the human body and the nature of gases. He also experimented on his son, the celebrated and polymathic biologist J. B. S. Haldane, even when he was quite young. Haldane locked himself in sealed chambers breathing potentially lethal cocktails of gases while recording their effect on his mind and body.

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Occupation: inventor, physiologist, philosopher, physician
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Born: May 3, 1860
Died: March 15, 1936

Family

Louisa Kathleen Trotterspouse J.B.S. Haldanechild Naomi Mitchisonchild Robert Haldanefather Mary Elizabeth Haldanemother Elizabeth Haldanesibling

Mechanism, life and personality; an examination of the mechanistic theory of life and mindknown for Methods of investigating quantitatively the heat production and the respiratory exchange of material in animalsknown for Haldane's decompression modelknown for Organism and environment as illustrated by the physiology of breathingknown for The new physiology and other addressesknown for Mechanism, life and personality ; an examination of the mechanistic theory of life and mindknown for