Scientists
Alexander Huxley
Used squid giant axon to measure the resting membrane potential.
Camillo Golgi
Golgi Stain
Identified two major parts on the neuron - the soma and perikaryon + neurites
Alan Hodgkin
ionic bases for resting and action potentials
Descartes
Analytical geometry
4 Principles of the mind
pineal gland
Paul Broca
Discrete region of cerebrum for speech
Ampere
invented the solenoid + electric telegraph
Electromagnetism through needles
Ramono y Cajal
perfected the Golgi stain
neurons communicate by contact not continuity\
Neuron Theory
Volta
Made the first battery
Bell and Magendie
Dorsal (sensory) and ventral Roots (motor)
Robert Hooke
Discovered Cells
Nernst
Nernst Equation - equilibrium potential
Charles Scott Sherrington
discovered mechanisms of reflex, action, proprioception, and movement
JZ Young
Discovered Squid Giant Axon
Charles Bell
Cerebellum
Cerebrum
Leewenhock
Cells are alive
Ohm
Mathematically derived the complete theory of electric
Edgar Adrain
methods to measure small changes in voltage nerves, discover APs
Henry Dale
cholinergic neurons
Joseph Gall
Phrenology
cerebrum could be important to behavior
Schwann, Schleiden, and Virchow
Cell theory
James Clark Maxwell
equations that derived electromagnetism
Book -"Dynamic of the Electromagnetic Field"
John C. Eccles
mechanisms of cell-cell interactions during reflex
Galen
blood in arteries
Marie-jean-pierre Flourens
Experimental Ablation Method
Galvaini and wife Lucia
frog legs moved when sparked from Leiden Jars