GA Russell, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002460
1787–1869 Czech physiologist whose pioneering investigations made important contributions to areas ranging from visual perception, functional anatomy (brain and heart), histology, embryology, botany to pharmacology.
Keywords: embryology; germinal vesicle; brain; functional anatomy; histology; microscopy; physiology; heart; pharmacology; vision; eye; image formation; Goethe; Helmholtz; Schwann
| Further Reading | |
| book Purkenyé JE (1819) Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Sehens in subjektiver Hinsicht. Prague: JG Calve. | |
| book Purkenyé JE (1825) Neue Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Sehens in subjektiver Hinsicht. Berlin: G Reimer. | |
| book Purkenyé JE (1838) Bericht über die Versammlung deutcher Naturforscher und Ärzte in Prag im September, 1877, Part 3, Section 5: A, pp. 177–180. Prague: Anatomisch-Physiologische Verhandlungen. | |
| book Clarke E and Jacyna LS (1987) Nineteenth-Century Origins of Neuroscience Concepts. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press. | |
| book Clarke E and O'Malley CD (eds) (1968) The Human Brain and Spinal Cord. A Historical Study Illustrated by Writings from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press. | |
| book Marshall LH and Magoun HW (1998) Discoveries in the Human Brain. Neuroscience Prehistory, Brain Structure and Function. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press. | |
| Sudnicke FK (1936) J.E. Purkinje's ‘physiology’ and his services to science. Osiris 2: 472–483. | |
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