Nonfiction work

By: Jacques Loeb

Date: 1907

Source: Loeb, Jacques. Comparative Physiology of the Brain and Comparative Psychology. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1907, 10–11.

About the Author: Jacques Loeb (1859–1924) was born in Mayen, Prussia (now Germany), and received an M.D. from the University of Strasbourg in 1884. In 1891 he immigrated to the United States, where he held professorships at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, and the University of California, Berkeley. In 1910, he became a medical researcher at Rockefeller University in New York City.

Introduction

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