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WILLY See also: German physiologist, was See also: born at See also: Hamburg on the 28th of See also: March 1837
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After attending the gymnasium at
See also: Luneburg, he went to See also: Gottingen, where his master in chemistry was F
.
See also: Wohler and in physiology R
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Wagner
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Having graduated in 1856, he studied under various famous physiologists, including E
.
Du Bois-Reymond at Berlin, See also: Claude See also: Bernard in See also: Paris, and K
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F
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W
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Ludwig and E
.
W
.
Brucke in Vienna
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At the end of 1863 he was put in See also: charge of the chemical department of the pathological laboratory at Berlin, under R. von See also: Virchow; in 1868 he was appointed professor of physiology at See also: Amsterdam; and in 1871 he was chosen to succeed H. von Helmholtz in the same capacity at See also: Heidelberg, where he died on the loth of See also: June 1900
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His See also: original See also: work falls into two See also: main See also: groups ,the physiology of muscle and 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
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He was also known for his researches on vision and the chemical changes occurring in the retina under the influence of See also: light
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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 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 general acceptance
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