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Florence Buchanan: the pioneering physiologist whose face was lost to history
Florence Buchanan used a capillary electrometer to turn tiny electrical changes in muscle into photographic traces. Her 1908 frog study measured a 12 to 22 millisecond spinal delay, proof the cord processes signals rather than merely carrying them. She was the first woman to attend a Physiological Society meeting in 1896, yet was barred from its dinner, and became one of its first six women members in 1915. The verdict is poignantly pioneering: her portrait was found in her sister’s 1941 memoir, filed under her father, and now the scientist can be seen with her science.
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