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Joseph Barcroft (
26 July 1872 -
21 March 1947) was a
British physiologist best known for his studies of the
oxygenation of
blood.
He received his degree in Medicine and Science in 1896 from
Cambridge University, and immediately began his studies of
hemoglobin.
In the course of his research, he didn't hesitate to use himself as a test subject. For example, during the
First World War, when he was called to
Royal Engineers Experimental Station (near
Salisbury) to carry out experiments on
asphyxiating gas, he exposed himself to an atmosphere of poisonous
hydrogen cyanide. On another occasion he remained for seven days in a glass chamber in order to calculate the minimum quantity of oxygen required for the survival of the human organism, and another time he exposed himself to such a low temperature that he collapsed into unconsciousness.
He also studied the physiology of oxygenation at extreme altitudes, and for this purpose he organized expeditions to the peak of
Tenerife (1910), to
Monte Rosa (1911), and to the Peruvian
Andes (1922).
From 1925 to 1937 he held the chair of physiology at Cambridge. His final research, begun in 1933, concerned
fetal respiration.
During the first years of the
Second World War he was again summoned to
Porton Down to consult on
chemical weapons.
Sources
Most of this article was drawn from the
corresponding article on the Italian Wikipedia
retrieved (
June 12 2006).
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