Jbs haldane biography examples

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An experimental childhood

Kat: John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, known as Jack or JBS to his friends - and ‘Boy’ to his family while growing up - was born on the 5th November 1892 to a well-to-do family, and mostly grew up in Oxford.

His father, John Scott Haldane, was a well-known physiologist, famous for carrying out fearless experiments upon himself and his colleagues in order to understand the limits of the human body and the impact of different gases upon it. 

Haldane Senior was working in an era of exploration, with divers heading to the depths of the ocean struggling to cope with decompression when they rose to the surface, climbers suffering from altitude sickness, and the threat of noxious gases in coalmines and then in the trenches of World War One. 

Samanth: His father was a physiologist.

He was particularly concerned with respirations. So a lot of Haldane senior’s scientific work involved shutting himself up in