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Article: Haldane, John Scott
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography;      700+ words ...Haldane, John Scott ( b . Edinburgh, Scotland ... In respiratory physiology, John Scott Haldane was the prime mover of modern times. A ... the Cloan branch of the centuries-old Haldane family of Gleneagles, he was the younger ...

Article: Haldane, Richard Burdon
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography;      700+ words ...Haldane, Richard Burdon ( b . Edinburgh, Scotland, 30 July 1856 ; d . Cloan, Perthshire, Scotland, 19 August 1928) Philosophy. Haldane was the son of Robert Haldane, landowner and lawyer; his mother was Mary Elizabeth Burdon ...

Article: Haldane, J. B. S
Animal Sciences;      609 words ...Haldane, J. B. S. Geneticist 1892-1964 John Burdon Sanderson Haldane was born on November 5, 1892. His father, John Scott Haldane, was a physiologist at Oxford University who worked on respiration and contributed to the safety of miners ...

Article: John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...John Burdon Sanderson Haldane John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1892-1964) was an English biologist who utilized mathematical ... evolution. Born at Oxford on Nov. 5, 1892, J. B. S. Haldane was the son of John Scott Haldane, a distinguished physiologist ...

Article: OBITUARY: Brodrick Haldane
The Independent - London;  February 12, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Does Brodrick Haldane deserve artistic immortality? Probably ... rather than comments on it; they needed Haldane and his gentle purveying of gossip ... to inject them with life. It was what Haldane did best: when I was working on my biography ...

Article: Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography;      700+ words ...Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson ( b . Oxford, England, 5 November ... December 1964) physiology, biochemistry, genetics. Haldane was the son of the Oxford physiologist John Scott Haldane, member of a Scottish family that traces its ancestry ...

Article: German philosophy and British public policy: Richard Burdon ...
Journal of the History of Ideas;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... article is on the life and work of Richard Burdon Haldane. (1) It examines the well-recorded fact that Haldane throughout his working life remained fascinated with German philosophy. Haldane concentrated initially on a legal career from 1877 ...