Respiration

Scottish physiologist John Scott Haldane (1860-1936) helped find outhow to determine the regulation of breathing and discovered theHaldane effect in haemaglobin. At that time his discoveries revolutionizedcurrent ideas about respiration. Haldane was also the inventorof the gas-mask during World War I.Between 1907 and 1913 he gave lectures in Physiology at Oxford. Besidehonorary degrees from many universities John Scott Haldane waselected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1897. His philosophicalideas were mainly developed in the last two decades of his life andpublished in books like The Sciences and Philosophy and The PhilosophicalBasis of Biology.Haldane was the founder of The Journal of Hygiene.