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THROUGH WILHELM ENGELMANN, an eminent German physiologist, was born at Leipzig on November 14, 1843, the son of a well-known publisher. He received his medical education at Jena, Leipzig, Heidelberg and Göttingen, and qualified at Leipzig in 1867. Directly after qualification he became assistant to Donders at the Physiological Institute at Utrecht, where he was appointed professor of general biology and histology, and succeeded Donders in the chair of physiology in 1888. In 1897 he succeeded Du Bois-Reymond as professor of physiology at Berlin, where he died on May 20, 1909. His most important work was the discovery of the cones and pigment cells of the retina. Besides studying the mechanics and thermodynamics of muscular contractions, he published works on ciliary movement (1868), spectrophotometric observations and an obituary of Helmholtz (1897). He was also co-editor of Archtiv fur Physiological. He was well known to physiologists in Great Britain, where he was elected an honorary member of the Physiological Society in 1898. He was elected an honorary member of the American Physiological Society in 1904.
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Theodor Engelmann (1843–1909). Nature 152, 560 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152560a0
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