Sir Joseph Barcroft CBE FRS (26 July 1872 – 21 March 1947) was a British physiologist best known for his studies of the oxygenation of blood. Born in...
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yachtsman Barcroft as a family name can refer to: George Barcroft (before 1574–c.1610), English composer of church music Sir Joseph Barcroft (1872–1947)...
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Ashdown, former Liberal Democrats (UK) leader, brought up near Comber Joseph Barcroft, scientist, Newry Colin Blakely, actor, Bangor Christine Bleakley,...
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and was hospitalised for several days in great pain, but survived. Joseph Barcroft, in 1917, tested hydrogen cyanide on himself as part of research into...
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homeostasis was coined by Walter Bradford Cannon in 1926. In 1932, Joseph Barcroft a British physiologist, was the first to say that higher brain function...
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Lake Barcroft is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 9,558 at the 2010 census. It is also the...
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(1956–57), and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Sir Joseph Barcroft, a pioneer investigator of the physiological effects of high altitudes...
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physiology in the early part of the 20th century. It was only with Joseph Barcroft, Lawrence J. Henderson, and particularly Walter Cannon and his idea...
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original on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2009-02-15. Dunn, P. M. (2000). "Sir Joseph Barcroft of Cambridge". Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal...
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by the university. The next 18 months were spent in research with Joseph Barcroft. Other figures in physiology at Cambridge at the time were Keith Lucas...
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