Neurognostics question. Nerve, muscle, blood, toil, tears, and sweat: England's pioneering biophysicist, soldier, and statesman.

摘要

This British pioneer of biophysics and physiology was bom in Bristol, England, on September 26, 1886. He was an avid sportsman and athlete, loved the outdoors and was especially fond of mathematics and physics. When he was 19, he joined Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1910, he received a fellowship to pursue graduate work at Trinity in the Physiology Department headed by John Newport Langley, where he used his mathematical skills to first provide theoretical contributions to the ongoing work of other scientists, such as Keith Lucas and Joseph Barcroft. These original contributions included the first mathematical formulation of drug/receptor interactions and the first kinetic model for a cooperative biochemical reaction involving the binding of multiple molecules to a single receptor complex. A mathematical coefficient in these binding equations was later named after him in his honor.