Du Bois-Reymond was born in Berlin, and spent his working life there.

Educated first at the French College in Berlin, then at Neuchâtel, where his father had returned, Du Bois-Reymond entered in 1836 the University of Berlin.

He had, about the time when the young Du Bois-Reymond came to his lectures, published his Elements of Physiology, the dominant note of which may be said to be this:

He made Du Bois-Reymond in 1840 his assistant in physiology, and as a starting-point for an inquiry put into his hands the essay which the Italian Carlo Matteucci, had just published on the electric phenomena of animals.

Du Bois-Reymond, beginning with the imperfect observations of Matteucci, built up this branch of science.

In them Du Bois-Reymond put forward a general conception by the help of which he strove to explain the phenomena which he had observed.

For many years, too, Du Bois-Reymond exerted a great influence as a teacher.

In 1858, upon the death of Johannes Müller, the chair of anatomy and physiology, which that man had held, was divided into a chair of human and comparative anatomy, which was given to Karl Bogislaus Reichert ( 1811 – 1883 ), and a chair of physiology, which naturally fell to Du Bois-Reymond.

For many years Du Bois-Reymond and his friend Hermann von Helmholtz, who like him had been a pupil of Johannes Peter Müller, were prominent scientists and professors in the Prussian capital.

Du Bois-Reymond is now remembered also in terms of the ignorabimus, to which he gave common currency.

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Du Bois-Reymond rejected this as absurd.

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The same year, Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond offered him a position as the Head of the Chemistry Department of the Institute of Physiology in Berlin.

In 1845 he founded the Physikalische Gesellschaft ( Physical Society ) in Berlin, together with Emil Du Bois-Reymond, Hermann von Helmholtz and others, in the house of physicist Heinrich Gustav Magnus.

The Bakken's present director David Rhees once identified the most significant holdings as works by Jean Antoine Nollet, Benjamin Franklin, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Luigi Galvani, Giovanni Aldini, Alessandro Volta, Guillame Benjamin Amand Duchenne, and Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond and the journals Annalen der Physik, the Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society and Zeitschrift für Physik.

The fact that sticks out in this voluminous record is that the bulk of Du Pont's production has always supplied the largest part of the requirements of the one customer in the automobile industry connected to Du Pont by a stock interest.

The work of Fonds Reine Elisabeth pour l'Assistance Medicale aux Indigenes Du Congo Belge ( FOREAMI ) has special interest with respect to demography.

The song " Parisien Du Nord " by Cheb Mami is a recent example of how the genre has been used as form of protest, as the song was written as a protest against the racial tensions that sparked the 2005 French riots.

Miller has received orders to infiltrate a mysterious hotel known as Chateau Du Luc, which is operated by Kantaris, leader of the smuggling network of the same name.

Moreover, the city of Toulouse has two historic sites added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Canal Du Midi ( shared with other cities ), since 1996, and the Basilica of St. Sernin under the description: World Heritage Sites of the Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France, since 1998.

The top-rating television shows he has hosted or featured in include The Outdoor Room, Australia ’ s Best Backyards, The Block, Backyard Blitz, Torvil and Dean's Dancing on Ice, Disney on Ice, Cirque Du Soleil Specials, White Room Challenge and many more.

Of the four men whose ideas were adopted, neither Charles Thomson, Pierre Du Simitière nor William Barton were Masons and, while Francis Hopkinson has been alleged to have had Masonic connections, there is no firm evidence to support the claim.

Their sound has been described as influenced by Pink Floyd and Husker Du.

In 2010 the band, consisting of Gabi Delgado-López and Robert Görl, has returned with the new single ' Du Bist DAF ', limited to 2010 copies.

The metre ( the decasyllable ) the king chose could not but contrast unfavourably with the magnificent alexandrines that Du Bartas and Agrippa d ' Aubigné were shortly to produce ; the general plan is feebly classical, and the very language has little or nothing of that racy mixture of scholarliness and love of natural beauty which distinguishes the best work of the Pléiade.

At first, as has been said, the enmity, not altogether unprovoked, of the friends and followers of Marot fell to his lot, then the still fiercer antagonism of the Huguenot faction, who, happening to possess a poet of great merit in Du Bartas, were able to attack Ronsard in his tenderest point.

In Jean Joseph Gaume's Life of the Good Thief ( Histoire Du Bon Larron French 1868, English 1882 ), Saint Augustine said ; the thief said to Jesus, the child: " O most blessed of children, if ever a time should come when I shall crave Thy Mercy, remember me and forget not what has passed this day.

Their popularity in the historical Chinese cultural area has varied over time, with certain authors coming in and out of favor, others permanently obscure, and some, such as Wang Wei, Du Fu, and Bai Juyi ( also, known as " Po Chü-i ") maintaining consistent popularity.

Grenville was immortalised in Daphne Du Maurier's 1948 novel The King's General, which has subsequently been adapted into a play, which is to be performed at Restormel Castle, Cornwall in May 2009.

He was panicked and did not organized an effective defensive line when communist commander Su Yu attacked Xuzhou in the Huaihai Campaign, although President Chiang Kai Shek again dispatched Lieutenant General Du Yuming to save the situation, but Liu's ineffective leadership and timidness has already doomed KMT position in central China.

It allows views of the Dents Du Midi and has a large funpark.

Since September 2011, the venue has been the home of the permanent Los Angeles resident Cirque Du Soleil show Iris.

Du Simitiere has living descendants throughout Switzerland, France and the USA.

Du Pré's recording has been praised for its passion as well as a secure technique.

* Madeleine Forestier ( Du Roy ), Charles's and later Georges's wife who helps her husbands write their articles and has many connections among the powerful

Since then she has played Antigone in a national UK tour, the Blanche Du Bois in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire at the Bristol Old Vic and with Gillian Anderson in A Doll ’ s House at Donmar Warehouse.

As the Du ' a al-Kumayl is such well known, it has become a fixture of great Islamic tradition within the Sufi world and the larger Muslim faith.

Composed by Khidr and passed down through Ali to Kumayl and beyond, the Du ' a al-Kumayl has proven its value in the Islamic faith.

There had also been other instances of disobedience prior to this, according to the official Du Parcq report into the incident such as a model prisoner attacking a popular guard with a razor blade and rough treatment of a prisoner being removed to solitary.

The fact that the 1912 exhibition had been curated to show the successive stages through which Cubism had transited, and that Du " Cubisme " had been published for the occasion, indicates the artists ' intention of making their work comprehensible to a wide audience ( art critics, art collectors, art dealers and the general public ).

Du Chatelet's translation is the only complete one to have been done in French and hers remains the standard French translation to this day.

Five other beaches have been given the Green Coast Award 2005 for " natural, unspoiled environment ": Rhossili Bay, Mewslade Bay, Tor Bay, Pwll Du Bay, and Limeslade Bay.

The Eye of Providence had been a well-known classical symbol of the deity since at least the Renaissance, which Du Simitiere was familiar with.

He also ( controversially, nowadays ) likens the Doasyoulikes to the natives of Africa, by mentioning that one of the gorillas shot by Du Chaillu " remembered that his ancestors had once been men, and tried to say, ' Am I not a man and a brother?

Alternate unconfirmed legends suggest that Du Pre was the name of an Austin newspaper editor who may have been instrumental in bringing the depot to the future town site, or given local topography, could borrow from the French phrase “ du pre ,” meaning “ of the meadow .”

They were first made of silk or rayon ( then known as " artificial silk "), and after 1940 with nylon, which had been invented by Du Pont in 1938.

ought not to have been involved in the conference about Du Plessis ; he was a donkey among monkeys, a learned man among the ignorant.

Instrumental bands, however, have been the most successful, including Gwerz, Bleizi Ruz, Strobinell, Sonerien Du and Tud.

A poem by Du Fu, a prolific Tang Dynasty poet, was written in memory of Zhuge Liang whose legacy of unwavering dedication seems to have been forgotten in Du Fu's generation ( judging by the description of Zhuge Liang ' unkept temple ).

Circumstantial evidence claims him to have been born the illegitimate child of an unknown priest and a woman named Marie Du Fayt, though this suggestion is as of yet unproven.

She had, at the age of 19, while on tour in England, been rumored to be engaged to the Duke of Manchester, actor Gerald Du Maurier, writer Richard Harding Davis and the aforementioned Churchill.

" ( a commonplace initial which it was absurd, after Panizzardi's telegram, to attribute to Dreyfus ), and a sort of military biography of Dreyfus, based on, but not identical with, a memorandum from Du Paty, who had been told to make the various documents of the secret dossier coincide with one another.

The same day the condemned man received a visit from Du Paty de Clam, who had been sent by the minister of war with the mission to declare to Dreyfus that if he would make a confession and reveal the nature of his indiscretions, he might obtain a mitigation of his sentence.

Gonse, Henry, Lauth, Du Paty de Clam, were all present ; the last, although having nothing to do with the Intelligence Office, had been summoned to it as the principal worker in the condemnation of Dreyfus, and as interested therefore more than any one in maintaining it.