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Augustus Desir e Waller was born in Paris on July 12, 1856, the son of the celebrated physiologist Augustus Volney Waller. After studying medicine at the universities in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Leipzig, Waller was made a professor in Aberdeen in 1881. He worked first in the physiology laboratory in London under BurdonSanderson and gave lectures on physiology at the London School of Medicine forWomen.Waller held the same position for 16 years at the Medical School of St. Mary's Hospital. He was named director of the physiology laboratory of the University of London in 1902. A.D. Waller died in London on March 11, 1922.
Waller primarily studied the electrical...