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KUHNE, WILLY (1837-1900)

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KUHNE, WILLY (1837-1900) , See also:German physiologist, was See also:born at See also:Hamburg on the 28th of See also:March 1837. After attending the gymnasium at See also:Luneburg, he went to See also:Gottingen, where his See also:master in See also:chemistry was F. See also:Wohler and in See also:physiology R. See also:Wagner. Having graduated in 1856, he studied under various famous physiologists, including E. Du Bois-Reymond at See also:Berlin, See also:Claude See also:Bernard in See also:Paris, and K. F. W. See also:Ludwig and E. W. Brucke in See also:Vienna. At the end of 1863 he was put in See also:charge of the chemical See also:department of the pathological laboratory at Berlin, under R. von See also:Virchow; in 1868 he was appointed See also:professor of physiology at See also:Amsterdam; and in 1871 he was chosen to succeed H. von See also:Helmholtz in the same capacity at See also:Heidelberg, where he died on the loth of See also:June 1900.

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original See also:work falls into two See also:main See also:groups ,the physiology of muscle and See also:nerve, which occupied the earlier years of his See also:life, and the chemistry of digestion, which he began to investigate while at Berlin with Virchow. He was also known for his researches on See also:vision and the chemical changes occurring in the retina under the See also:influence of See also:light. The visual See also:purple, described by See also:Franz See also:Boll in 1876, he attempted to make the basis of a photochemical theory of vision, but though he was able to establish its importance in connexion with vision in light of See also:low intensity, its See also:absence from the retinal See also:area of most distinct vision detracted from the completeness of the theory and precluded its See also:general See also:acceptance.

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