Newbury, West Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Close to this site, No. 1, Carnarvon Terrace (later renamed 50 West Street and subsequently demolished) was the childhood home of John Newport Langley ScD FRS (1852 - 1925) Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge (1877). Fellow of the Royal Society (1883). Professor of Physiology at Cambridge Univers
ity (1903). He did ground-breaking research in physiology and was an international authority on the autonomic nervous system. One of two main founders of the theory that there are specific receptors i
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