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Encyclopedia > John Scott Haldane

John Scott Haldane (May 3, 1860 - March 15/March 14, 1936) was a Scottish medical doctor. May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). ... March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in Leap years) with 292 days remaining in the year. ... 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...


He married Louisa Kathleen Trotter and was father of J.B.S. Haldane, and brother of Elizabeth Haldane and Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane. He was Gifford Lecturer in the University of Glasgow, Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Honorary Professor of the University of Birmingham. He was educated at the Universities of Edinburgh and Jena, and held the degrees of Master of Arts from Edinburgh and Oxford, Doctor of Law from Edinburgh and Birmingham, and Doctor of Medicine from Edinburgh. He was also President of the English Institution of Mining Engineers, a Companion of Honor of the British Court, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a member of the Royal College of Physicians and of the Royal Society of Medicine. John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (November 5, 1892 - December 1, 1964), who normally used J.B.S. as a first name, was a geneticist born in Scotland and educated at Eton and Oxford University. ... Richard Burdon Sanderson Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, (July 30, 1856 - August 19, 1928), was an important British Liberal politician, lawyer, and philosopher. ...


He was an international authority on ether and respiration and the inventor of the gas-mask during World War I. ("The Sciences and Philosophy: Gifford Lectures, University of Glasgow, 1927-28" by J.S. Haldane, Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., Garden City, NY, 1929)


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John Scott Haldane help found out how to determine the regulation of breathing. He is the founder of The Journal of Hygiene. Haldane made a decompression apparatus to help make deep-sea divers safer. Haldane also was an authority on the effects of pulmonary diseases. He investigated the principal of action of gasses. For the play Breath by Samuel Beckett, see Breath (play). ...


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J. B. S. Haldane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (912 words)
Haldane was born in Edinburgh, the son of the medical doctor John Scott Haldane and his wife Louisa Kathleen Haldane, and descended from Scottish aristocrats (see Haldane family).
Haldane's famous book, The Causes of Evolution (1932), was a major work of what came to be known as the "modern evolutionary synthesis", reestablishing natural selection as the premier mechanism of evolution by explaining it in terms of the mathematical consequences of Mendelian genetics.
Haldane was friends with the author Aldous Huxley, and was the basis for the biologist Shearwater in Huxley's novel Antic Hay.
JBS Haldane (4389 words)
Haldane argued on the side of Engels and, on the basis of such an approach, put forward his own argument for the existence of contradictions in matter: mind was intimately connected with matter and mirrored its behaviour; therefore, if there were contradictions in the mind there must be contradictions in matter.
Haldane was trying to pin the dialectic onto biology from outside it, Lemer asserted, but it was "purely gratuitous." Replying, Haldane insisted that the dialectic was indeed an aid both to the understanding of known biological facts and to the discovery of new ones.
Haldane, a professor of genetics at the University of London, was unwavering in his commitment to the science of genetics, but at the same time hesitant to believe the worst of the situation in the Soviet Union.
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