Js haldane biography

For another Land physiologist, put under somebody's nose John Burdon Sanderson Haldane.

British physiologist streak decompression pollster (1860–1936)

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Scientist of the Day - John Scott Haldane

John Scott Haldane, a Scottish physiologist, was born May 3, 1860. Haldane was the world's reigning expert on respiration in the early 20th century, and he was especially interested in substances that cause problems with breathing, such as noxious and poisonous gases. Miners had long been plagued with buildups of various gases in mines, which were called "damps". Thus we have black damp, white damp, choke damp, firedamp, and afterdamp. Haldane was the first to identify most of these; he discovered, for example, that afterdamp – named because it lingers after firedamp explodes – is a mixture of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide and is deadly because the carbon monoxide replaces oxygen in the blood and causes asphyxiation. It was Haldane who instituted the famous "miner's canary," a small bird or animal taken into the mines which will – quite unwillingly – warn of gas buildup by falling ill before the gas has yet affected humans.  He also invented and built all sorts of apparatus to measure the presence of gases in mines and in the blood.  One of the books by Haldane that we own, Methods of Air Analysis (1912) contains many diagrams and photos of such instruments; we show one of those here (s

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An experimental childhood

Kat: John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, known as Jack or JBS to his friends - and ‘Boy’ to his family while growing up - was born on the 5th November 1892 to a well-to-do family, and mostly grew up in Oxford. His father, John Scott Haldane, was a well-known physiologist, famous for carrying out fearless experiments upon himself and his colleagues in order to understand the limits of the human body and the impact of different gases upon it. 

Haldane Senior was working in an era of exploration, with divers heading to the depths of the ocean struggling to cope with decompression when they rose to the surface, climbers suffering from altitude sickness, and the threat of noxious gases in coalmines and then in the trenches of World War One. 

Samanth: His father was a physiologist. He was particularly concerned with respirations. So a lot of Haldane senior’s scientific work involved shutting himself up in a box and seeing how varying mixtures of carbon dioxide and oxygen affected him. Out in the world he would go out into coal mines and try to understand what was killing coal miners, it turned out to be carbon monoxide, something that was not previously understood. He would work on submarine research