About Emil du Bois-Reymond
Emil Heinrich du Bois-Reymond was a German physiologist, the co-discoverer of nerve action potential, and the developer of experimental electrophysiology. His lectures on science and culture earned him great esteem during the latter half of the 19th century. Educated first at the French College in Berlin, du Bois-Reymond enrolled in the University of Berlin in 1838. In 1892 he was awarded honorary membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in recognition of this work. On the one hand, it is a record of the exact determination and approximative analysis of the electric phenomena presented by living beings. Emil had two sisters and two brothers, of whom one, Paul (2 December 1831 – 7 April 1889), became a distinguished mathematician.
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