Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer

Sir Edward Albert Sharpey - Schafer (actually Edward Albert Schäfer, born June 2, 1850 in Hornsey in London, † March 29, 1935 in North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland ) was an English physiologist.

Sharpey - Schafer is the inventor of the eponymous Schafer method of artificial respiration.

1910 suspected Sharpey - Schafer, that a single chemical substance in the pancreas in patients with diabetes mellitus missing. He called this substance insulin. According to other sources, the postulation of a crucial hormone in the pancreas and the attribution " insulin " goes back to the Belgian pathologist Jean de Meyer (1878-1934) in 1909.

Sharpey - Schafer was from 1899 to 1933 professor of physiology at the University of Edinburgh. In 1924 he was awarded for his scientific merits, the Copley Medal.

Works

  • Experimental physiology. 3d ed London: Longmans, Green, 1921
  • The endocrine organs. 2nd ed 1924
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