John Newport Langley

John Newport Langley (2 November 1852 - 5 November 1925) was a British physiologist. He spent his entire career at Cambridge University. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1883 and later its vice-president. Langley is known as one of the fathers of the chemical receptor theory, and at the origin of the concept of "receptive substance".

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  • Nov 2, 1852

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  • Nov 5, 1925 (age 73 years)

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