Haldane

Haldane definition - medical

Hal·dane (hôlˈdānˌ, -dən)

Family of Scottish intellectuals and scientists, including John Scott Haldane (1860-1936), a physiologist noted for his studies of the exchange of gases during respiration; and his son John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1892-1964), a geneticist.

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