When1: 1845
When2: 1877
Who: Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond [Du Bois-Reymond, Emil Heinrich]
What: physiologist
Where: Germany
works\ Researches on Animal Electricity [1848 and 1860: two volumes]
Detail: He lived 1818 to 1896. Nerve cells have resting potential [1845] that decreases with nerve impulse. Nerves conduct electricity. Nerve impulses transmit chemically [1877].
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