1. Sir William Maddock Bayliss was an English physiologist.
12 Facts About William Bayliss
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William Bayliss was born in Wednesbury, Staffordshire but shortly thereafter his father, a successful merchant of ornamental ironwork, moved his family to a house he had built on West Heath Road in Hampstead in north London, which he named St Cuthberts.
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William Bayliss began to study medicine at University College London in 1880, but dropped out when he failed anatomy.
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William Bayliss returned to University College London in 1888 as an assistant to Edward Sharpey-Schafer.
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William Bayliss married Starling's sister Gertrude in 1893; they had three sons and one daughter.
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William Bayliss built a laboratory in a corrugated iron shed in his four-acre garden.
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The wealthy William Bayliss had the resources to demand an apology, and when this was denied to sue for libel.
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William Bayliss then studied the circulation of the brain and the action of enzymes, he was a founder of the Biochemical Society.
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William Bayliss was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1903.
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William Bayliss jointly delivered their Croonian lecture in 1904 and was awarded their Royal Medal in 1911 and their Copley Medal in 1919.
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William Bayliss was knighted for his contribution to medicine in 1922.
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William Bayliss's son, Dr Leonard Ernest Bayliss FRSE was a physiologist.