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PHYSIOLOGISTS the world over, and especially in Belgium, have reason to be proud of Léon Fredericq. Born in 1851, he became an outstanding figure in the classical period of physiology. Between 1870 and 1880, the institutes of physiology for the promotion of teaching and the encouragement of research, which came into being in various countries, necessitated the creation of whole-time chairs of physiology. In Belgium such innovations were encouraged by the State, and Léon Fredericq was appointed to the chair at Liège in 1879 in succession to Théodore Schwann, and charged with the creation of a new Institute of Physiology, which was completed in 1888. In the forty-two years during which he directed the Institute, it made history, and on reading this elegant little essay, one realizes why so high a place in world physiology is held by so small a country.
Léon Fredericq et Ies débuts de la physiologie en Belgique
Par Prof. Marcel Florkin. (Collection Nationale, Troisième Série, No. 36.) Pp. 104. (Bruxelles:J. Lebègue et Cie., 1943.) n.p.
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EVANS, C. Léon Fredericq et Ies débuts de la physiologie en Belgique. Nature 156, 764 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156764a0
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