biography
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Bayliss, Sir William Maddock
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| male
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| lived:
| (1860–1924)
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| biography:
| Physiologist, born in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, C England, UK. He studied science at University College London, and taught physiology there (1888–1924). Much of his experimental work was done with his colleague Ernest Henry Starling, including work on the cardiovascular system and the discovery of secretin, the first known hormone (which word they coined). His best-known work is Principles of General Physiology (1915). He was knighted in 1922. |
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