Article ID: CBB001211240

Bernstein's Long Path to Membrane Theory: Radical Change and Conservation in Nineteenth-Century German Electrophysiology (2011)

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This article aims at illustrating the historical circumstances that led Julius Bernstein in 1902 to formulate a membrane theory on resting current in muscle and nerve fibers. It was a truly paradigm shift in research into bioelectrical phenomena, if qualified by the observation that, besides Bernstein, many other electrophysiologists between 1890 and 1902 borrowed ideas from the recent ionistic approach in the physical-chemistry domain. But Bernstein's subjective perception of that paradigm shift was that it constituted a mere reinterpretation of the so-called preexistence theory advanced by his teacher Emil du Bois-Reymond in the first half of the nineteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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Authors & Contributors
Finkelstein, Gabriel W.
Beiermann, Lea
Wesseling, Elisabeth
Wegener, Daan
Shail, Andrew
Schmidgen, Henning
Concepts
Nervous system
Physiology
Neurosciences
Electrophysiology
Science
Human physiology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
Places
Germany
Prussia (Germany)
United States
France
Berlin (Germany)
Great Britain
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