William Bayliss
Sir William Maddock Bayliss ( born 2 May 1860 in Butcroft, Wednesbury, † August 27 1924 in London) was a British physiologist.
Life
William Bayliss was born the son of an industrialist, whose business he continued later. He attended Mowbray House School in Wolverhampton before he began training as a doctor at the local hospital, which he, however, interrupted. From 1881 to 1884 he studied inter alia, zoology, anatomy, physics and physiology at University College London before moving in 1885 to Wadham College in Oxford, where he received his doctorate three years later in physiology. On his return to London he had held since 1903 as an assistant professor in 1912, he was appointed Professor of General Physiology.
He was with Gertrude Starling, the sister of Ernest Starling, married. The couple had four children.
Performance
Together with Ernest Starling discovered the hormone secretin Bayliss in 1902 and used for the first time the term " hormone". The two scientists also discover together the peristalsis of the digestive tract. Also the Bayliss effect was first described by William Bayliss.
Awards (selection)
1903 Bayliss was inducted into the Royal Society, the Copley Medal he received in 1919. Knighted in 1922, he was beaten.
Works
- The Nature of Enzyme Action. 1908
- Principles of General Physiology. 1915
- The vaso- motor system. 1923