Francis Gotch

Francis Gotch (* 1853 in Liverpool, † 1913) was a British neurophysiologist.

He was born the only child of a minister in Liverpool and attended the Amersham Hall School and then the University College London, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree and two years later received a Bachelor of Science after a change to the Faculty of Science in 1873. After another change at the medical school in 1881, he received the Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons ( MRCS ).

As assistant to John Scott Burdon - Sanderson, he worked on physiological issues, especially in the muscles and the nervous system. Among other things, he examined the electrical organs of the torpedo marble (Torpedo marmorata ).

In 1887 he married the sister of Victor Horsley, with whom he had one son and three daughters.

In 1891 he became a professor of physiology at the University of Liverpool. In 1892 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1895 he took over from Burdon Sanderson whose professor of physiology at Oxford University, where he continued research at the physiology of excitable organs, especially to nerves, muscles and the retina. Here he received a master's degree in 1896 and his doctorate in 1901.

He received an honorary doctorate in 1907 from the University of Liverpool and in 1911 by the University of St Andrews.

Works

  • Alfred J Ewart and Francis Gotch: On the physics and physiology of protoplasmic streaming in plants. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1903.
  • The submaximal electrical response of nerve to a single stimulus. London 1902.
  • The time relations of the photo -electric changes in the eyeball of the frog. London 1903.

Documents

  • Neurophysiologist
  • Physician (19th century)
  • Physician ( 20th century )
  • University teachers (Oxford)
  • Honorary Doctor of the University of Liverpool
  • Honorary Doctor of the University of St Andrews
  • Briton
  • Born in 1853
  • Died in 1913
  • Man
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