John Call Dalton
1825–89
American physician and physiologist. Attended Claude Bernard’s lectures on physiology in Paris in 1850, and regarded Bernard as his mentor. Professor of physiology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York from 1855. Specialised in the study of digestion, 1854–8, and again from 1874.
Source
DSB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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