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Ernest Starling

A man with light brown hair and a full beard, dressed in a dark suit with a bow tie, sits against a dark background, exuding a formal and scholarly demeanor.

British physiologist (1866–1927) at University College London who, with his brother-in-law William Bayliss, demonstrated chemical signalling between the gut and the pancreas in 1902. In a 1905 Croonian Lecture he coined the word hormone, from the Greek hormao, to set in motion. His Law of the Heart, that stretch produces force, remains a foundational principle of cardiac physiology.

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