biography
| name: |
Langley, John Newport
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1852–1925)
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| biography:
| British physiologist. Professor at Cambridge from 1903, he was noted for his research on the sympathetic nervous system, nerves that control involuntary functions such as heart rate, pupil size, and sweating. He owned and edited the Journal of Physiology. |
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