Roth, Gaby
Application for the Acadamie Royale des Sciences
Name:
William Harvey
Address:
London, England
Job Objective:
I should win the award from the Acadamie Royale des Sciences because I have a yearning to know the truth about the inner-workings of the human body. And the wonderful achievements I have already made could only be magnified if I was awarded by the Acadamie Royale des Sciences and granted access to higher levels of technology that the Acadamie possesses.
Qualifications:
I was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1607. In 1609 I was a member of the staff of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. I was Lumleian lecturer on anatomy and surgery for the Royal College of Physicians from 1615 to 1656.
I was the court physician to King James I in 1618 and then to Charles I in 1625, a post I held until Charles was beheaded in 1649.
Education and Training:
I studied arts and medicine at Cambridge University, where I received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1597, and then earned my medical degree in 1602 from the renowned medical school at Padua (Italy), where I studied under Fabrici. I also earned a second medical degree in 1602 from Cambridge University.
Summary of Major Works:
I discovered the actual route for the circulation of blood. My many experimental dissections and vivisections proved that Galen's ideas about blood movement must be wrong. Especially the concepts that blood was formed in the liver and absorbed by the body and that blood flowed through the septum (dividing wall) of the heart.
I also was the founder of the study known as embryology-the study of the development of the fetus in the egg, or embryo, in 1651. From the studies of embryology I developed the first theory of generation since antiquity, in which I stressed the primacy of the egg-even in mammals.
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