Hump Day History in Science


 Since I'll be off Thursday and Friday, I wanted to cover our bases for both history and science.

This is Richard Darwin Keynes, born on this day in 1919, he passed away in 2010.

In 1979 he released The Beagle Record: Selections From the Original Pictorial Records and Written Accounts of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle.  You see, Charles was his great-grandfather.

But Richard made his own contributions to science, studying the mechanisms underlying the conduction of the action potential along nerve fibers.

By using the giant nerve fibers of squid, he was able to discover how nerve impulses are transmitted in all animals.

Along with Dr. David Aidley, he authored an introductory textbook named, Nerve and Muscle.

"The authors begin with a discussion of the nature of nerve impulses as electrical events.  They go on to consider communication between nerve cells via synaptic transmission, and finally discuss the nature of muscular contraction, relating muscle cellular structure to contractile function."




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