science · 13 March 1911 · 114 years ago
death
Died 13 Mar 1911 at age 70 (born 4 Apr 1840).
Henry Pickering Bowditch was an American physiologist who established first teaching laboratory of physiology in U.S. (1871). He discovered the 'all-or-none' law of muscle contraction (1871), and the indefatigability of nerves (1890). He was the grandson of Nathaniel Bowditch.
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