Scottish physiologist John Scott Haldane 18601936 helped find out how todetermine the regulation of breathing and discovered the Haldane effect inhaemaglobin. A... » 

Scottish physiologist John Scott Haldane 18601936 helped find out how todetermine the regulation of breathing and discovered the Haldane effect inhaemaglobin. At that time his discoveries revolutionized current ideas aboutrespiration. Haldane was also the inventor of the gasmask during World War I.Between 1907 and 1913 he gave lectures in Physiology at Oxford. Beside honorarydegrees from many universities John Scott Haldane was elected Fellow of theRoyal Society FRS in 1897. His philosophical ideas were mainly developed inthe last two decades of his life and published in books like The Sciences andPhilosophy and The Philosophical Basis of Biology. Haldane was the founderof The Journal of Hygiene. «