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WE regret to announce the recent death of Baron Leon Fredericq, emeritus professor of physiology at the University of Liege, at the age of eighty-four years. He was born in 1851 at Ghent, where he became doctor in natural science and medicine in 1871. After studying experimental methods in several foreign laboratories he became assistant in the Department of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Ghent, where he carried out investigations on the presence of fibrinogen in the blood plasma. In 1879 he succeeded Theodor Schwann at Liege in the chair of physiology, which he held for more than forty years, during which he carried out important researches on the physiology of circulation, respiration and the nervous system. He was the author of a standard treatise on physiology and a handbook of technique and demonstrations in general and special physiology. At the beginning of the century he was the co-founder with Paul Heger of the Archives Internationales de physiologie. He also founded a biological station for botanists and zoologists. Frederieq was a corresponding member of the Institut de France, commander of the Legion of Honour and of the Crown of Italy and fellow of the Physiological Society of London, in addition to many other distinctions.
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[Obituary]. Nature 136, 541 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136541b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136541b0