Emil of Wood-Reymond

Emil Heinrich of the Wood-Reymond , born with Berlin the November 7th 1818 and died in Berlin the December 26th 1896, is a physiologist and German mathematician, one of the founders of the electrophysiology.

Raise Johannes Peter Müller, Emil of Wood-Reymond belongs to the German school of the physiologists of the 19th century, antivitalists and materialists.

Biography

Resulting from a family Huguenot E of Berlin, it made there its secondary studies with the French college, then undertakes studies of Philosophie. In 1837, it visits the college of Mitscherlich and then decides to study the natural science. He studies then mathematics with Bonn, where he becomes the assistant of Johannes Peter Müller, with which he works to repeat and improve the experiments of Carlo Matteucci on the frog muscles. He devotes himself consequently to the study of animal electricity and supports his thesis in 1843 on the Greek and Latin traditional texts on the electric fish. For its experimental needs, it develops a particularly sensitive Galvanomètre.

In 1848, it publishes the first volume of the Études of animal electricity ( Untersuchungen über tierische Elektrizität ) followed by a second in 1860 and of a third in 1884. It supports a thesis of enabling in 1846 on the acid reaction of the muscular substance postmortem. Named Privatdocent in physiology in Berlin, he becomes foreign member of the Royal Society in 1877.

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