Léon Fredericq
1851–1935
Belgian physiologist and naturalist. PhD in natural sciences, Ghent, 1871; in medicine, 1875. Studied in Straßburg (Strasbourg), Paris, and under Lacaze-Duthiers at Roscoff, 1876. On his return to Ghent, worked on circulation and coagulation of blood. Professor of physiology, Liège, 1879; founder of the Institute of Physiology, 1887.
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BNB: Biographie nationale publiée par l’académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique. 44 vols., including 16 supplements. Brussels: H. Thiry-Van Buggenhoudt [and others]. 1866–1986.
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