Du Bois-Reymond, EMIL, physiologist, was born in Berlin in 1818, and in 1841 began the researches in animal electricity with which his name is chiefly identified. The results of his labours in this field are contained in several valuable publications, the most important of which is his great work, Untersuchungen über tierische Elektrizität (Berlin, 2 vols. 1848-84). In 1858 he succeeded Joh. Müller in the chair of Physiology at Berlin, and in 1867 he was elected permanent secretary of the Academy of Sciences. Two volumes of his collected memoirs and addresses appeared at Leipzig in 1885-87.
Du Bois-Reymond, EMIL
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