Edward Albert Schäfer
1850–1935
Physiologist. MD, University College, London, 1874. An original member of the Physiological Society from 1876. Studied the evolution of the nervous system and published on several areas of anatomy and physiology. Professor of physiology, University College, London, 1883–99; University of Edinburgh, 1899–1933. Published a popular textbook of physiology in 1898. Took the name Sharpey-Schafer in 1916. Knighted, 1913. FRS 1878.
Sources
ODNB
Sparrow and Finger 2001
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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