Léon Fredericq (1851–1935)

Belgian physiologist and naturalist. PhD in natural sciences, Ghent, 1871; in medicine, 1875. Studied in Straßburg (Strasbourg), Paris, and under Lacaze-Duthiers at Roscoff, 1876. On his return to Ghent, worked on circulation and coagulation of blood. Professor of physiology, Liège, 1879; founder of the Institute of Physiology, 1887.