August Krogh
August Krogh
Schack August Steenberg Krogh ForMemRSwas a Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916-1945. He contributed a number of fundamental discoveries within several fields of physiology, and is famous for developing the Krogh Principle...
NationalityDanish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth15 November 1874
CountryDenmark
men breathing tests
In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.
oxygen regulation trustworthy
The absorption of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion alone. There is no trustworthy evidence of any regulation of this process on the part of the organism.
ideas giving may
We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced-and sometimes strongly-by our personal bias; and we give our best thoughts to those ideas which we have to defend.
done may facts
The theory of the lung as a gland has justified its existence and done excellent service in bringing forward facts, which shall survive any theoretical construction that has been or may hereafter be put upon them.
oxygen use muscles
Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.