Claude bernard biography brevete

French physiologist (1813–1878)

For the 17th-century Roman Catholic priest who popularized the Memorare, see Father Claude Bernard.

Claude Bernard (French:[klodbɛʁnaʁ]; 12 July 1813 – 10 February 1878) was a French physiologist.

I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science".^[1] He originated the term milieu intérieur and the associated concept of homeostasis (the latter term being coined by Walter Cannon).

Claude bernard biography brevete

Life and career

Bernard was born in 12 July 1813 in the village of Saint-Julien,^[2] near Villefranche-sur-Saône. He received his early education in the Jesuit school of that town, and then proceeded to the college at Lyon, which, however, he soon left to become assistant in a druggist's shop.^[2] He is sometimes described as an agnostic,^[3] and even humorously referred to by his colleagues as a "great priest of atheism".

Despite this, after his death Card