Joshua Harold Burn

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Joshua Harold Burn
Born(1892-03-06)6 March 1892
Barnard Castle, England
Died13 July 1981(1981-07-13) (aged 89)
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
FieldsPharmacology

Joshua Harold Burn

Oxford University.[2]

Burn worked on the internal control of the body by the autonomic nervous system, carrying out seminal work on the release of noradrenaline from these nerves and introducing the controversial Burn-Rand hypothesis.[3]

The

Nobel Laureate John Vane claimed "If anyone can be said to have moulded the subject of pharmacology around the world, it is he".[4]

Life

Burn was born in

Keith Lucas and the Nobel Laureates Archibald Hill and Edgar Adrian. In January 1914 Burn went to work for Henry Hallett Dale
in London.

In October 1914, Burn enlisted in the army as a Signals Officer with the rank of corporal. By the end of 1917 he was required to return to England to finish his medical training. From 1920 to 1926 he worked with Henry Dale at the

The School of Pharmacy, University of London
.

From 1937 to 1959 Burn held the chair of Pharmacology at the

John Robert Vane
(1927–2004), one of three winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1982.

Burn was an honorary Doctor of

Leopoldina and a Fellow of the Royal Society (elected 1942) .[1]
In 1967 he received the Schmiedeberg-badge of the German Pharmacological Society and in 1979 the Wellcome Gold Medal of the British Pharmacological Society.

Publications

Methods of Biological Assay, 1928; Recent Advances in Materia Medica, 1931; Biological Standardization, 1937; Background of Therapeutics, 1948; Lecture Notes on Pharmacology, 1948; Practical Pharmacology, 1952; Functions of Autonomic Transmitters, 1956; The Principles of Therapeutics, 1957; Drugs, Medicines and Man, 1962; The Autonomic Nervous System, 1963; Our most interesting Diseases, 1964; A Defence of John Balliol, 1970

References

  1. ^
    S2CID 32218225
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  2. ^ "BURN, Joshua Harold", Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 21 March 2012
  3. ^ "Joshua Harold Burn - British Pharmacological Society". Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  4. ^ Physiology or medicine: 1981–1990, Volume 6 By Tore Frängsmyr, Jan E. Lindsten, p142
  5. ^ a b c Joshua Harold Burn. 6 March 1892 – 13 July 1981 Edith Bülbring and J. M. Walker Page 47 of 44–89
  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ Joshua Harold Burn. 6 March 1892 – 13 July 1981 Edith Bülbring and J. M. Walker Page 48 of 44–89
  8. ^ a b c Joshua Harold Burn. 6 March 1892 – 13 July 1981 Edith Bülbring and J. M. Walker Page 52 of 44–89
  9. ^ Joshua Harold Burn. 6 March 1892 – 13 July 1981 Edith Bülbring and J. M. Walker Page 53 of 44–89

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