William bayliss biography

(b. Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England, 2 May 1860; d.

Sir William Maddock Bayliss was a British physiologist, co-discoverer (with the British physiologist Ernest Starling) of hormones.

Sir William Maddock Bayliss FRS was an English physiologist.

Sir William Maddock Bayliss FRS (2 May 1860 – 27 August 1924) was an English physiologist.

An English physiologist, William Bayliss was the co-discoverer of the peptide hormone called secretin which he and Ernest Starling jointly researched about.

William Maddock Bayliss was a British physiologist born on May 2nd, 1860 in Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England.

London, England, 27 August 1924)

general physiology.

W. M. Bayliss was the only son of Moses Bayliss and Jan Maddock to survive infancy. His father was a manufacturer of galvanized goods and founder of the Wolverhampton firm of Bayliss, Jones and Bayliss.

William received his early education at a private school in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, and was then apprenticed to a local general practitioner.

When, in 1880, the elder Bayliss moved to London, William continued his studies at University College, London, where in 1881 he gained a medical entrance exhibition and a science exhibition at the preliminary scientific examination.

In 1882 he took the B.Sc. degree with a scholarship in zoology and physics, and began to study physiology and anatomy, but at the second M.B. examination he failed in anatomy. He then relinquished medical studies to concentrate on physiology.

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