Joseph Barcroft

Sir Joseph Barcroft (July 26th 1872 - March 21st 1947) is a British physiologist .

Biography

Barcroft is born in Glen, a small village close to Newry in the Comté of Down in Northern Ireland. He studies with the King' S College of the Université of Cambridge where he obtains his Doctorat in 1896. He obtains a post of professor in Cambridge in 1900. Barcroft is elected member of the Royal Society in 1910.

During the first part of its career, Barcroft works on the respiratory function of the Sang. It carries out several forwardings in altitudes, on the Teide in 1910, in the Mont Pink in 1911 and in the Andes cordillera in 1922, It shows that an adaptive mechanism with the effect of altitude exists. Barcroft receives the royal Médaille in 1922.

During the First World War, Barcroft works with Porton Down, a military research center in the field of the chemical weapons. He studies the effect of asphyxiating gases, in particular Cyanure of hydrogen and the effect of the lack of oxygen on the organization. On several occasions Barcroft is used him even as guinea-pig.

Starting from 1932 Barcroft turns to the Physiologie of the development of the Fœtus. In 1935 it gives a Croonian Lecture on the topic of the breathing of the fetus. In 1943 it receives the Médaille Copley. Barcroft continues its research until its death in 1947, a few weeks before this one it publishes another traditional: Researches in Antenatal Life. I leaves

Publications

The respiratory function off the blood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Near, 1914
Features in the architecture & physiological function. 1934
The brain and its environment. 1938
The dependence off the mind one its physical environment. 1938

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