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Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäefer was a British physiologist and endocrinologist who is credited with discovering the effects of the hormone adrenaline. He was also the first to predict the exis... Read more
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Edward Sharpey-Schafer was the first to use, in 1894, an adrenal gland extract to raise blood pressure. He also proposed and named the pancreatic hormone insulin. In 1903, he developed the technique o... Read more