Person Haldane; John Scott (1860 - 1936) Haldane John Scott 1860 - 1936 British Male Edinburgh, Scotland 03 May 1860 Oxford 15/03/1936 19360315

Physiology Career: John Scott Haldane was one of the greatest and most colourful of British scientists, acknowledged as the leading physiologist of the era at a time when physiology and much of medical science was coming into its own. The most successful serial self-experimenter in the history of science, Haldane crawled through the carnage of underground explosions, locked himself in sealed chambers, breathed in lethal cocktails of gases, sampled his own blood, burned and healed his own flesh, and experimented on his own children, in an obsessional push to understand the nature of human respiration. What is expired air? How can you make coalmines safer? What does carbon monoxide do to people? These are just some of the vital questions to which Haldane provided the answers, saving thousands of lives in the process. He also designed the first space-suit and invented the gas-mask, among many other innovations and contributions we still benefit from today. Honours: CH 1928 Father of John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (FRS 1932); brother of Richard Burdon Haldane (FRS 1906); maternal grandfather of John Murdoch Mitchison (FRS 1978) Medals and prizes: Royal Medal 1916; Copley Medal 1934 Fellow 03/06/1897 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB Obituaries: Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1936-1938 vol 2 pp 115-139, plate, by C G Douglas References: W van der Kloot, 'April 1915: Five Future Nobel Prize-Winners Inaugurate Weapons Of Mass Destruction And The Academic-Industrial-Military Complex' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 149-160 Notes: According to the DNB entry, he died at midnight 14-15 Mar 1936. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 3 May 1860 - 15 Mar 1936 NA2292 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/27195510 b5830637-e474-4193-9645-5a5e22ad4765