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A number of tests were made for the purpose of discovering whether the pressure of oxygen in the blood was or was not higher than that in the alveolar air. In all cases they were so nearly the same that we attribute the passage of gas through the pulmonary epithelium to diffusion.
Joseph Barcroft
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Joseph Barcroft
Born:
July 26, 1872
Died:
March 21, 1947
(aged 74)
Bio:
Sir Joseph Barcroft, CBE, FRS was a British physiologist best known for his studies of the oxygenation of blood.
Known for:
The brain and its environment (1938)
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