Claude Bernard

1813 - 1878

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country of citizenship: France

languages spoken, written or signed: French

educated at: Faculté de médecine de Paris, Science Faculty of Paris

occupation: physician writer, politician, psychologist, professor, physiologist

award received: Copley Medal, Commander of the Legion of Honour, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Baly Medal

position held: Second Empire senator, president, seat 29 of the Académie française, president

influenced by: François Magendie

Claude Bernard (French: [bɛʁnaʁ]; 12 July 1813 – 10 February 1878) was a French physiologist. Historian I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science". He originated the term milieu intérieur, and the associated concept of homeostasis (the latter term being coined by Walter Cannon). Source: Wikipedia (en)