Famous People with Name Haldan

Haldan Keffer Hartline            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Haldan Keffer Hartline: American physiologist who was a cowinner (with George Wald and Ragnar Granit) of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision.

Haldane 'Hal' Naude Luscombe            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Haldane 'Hal' Naude Luscombe: is a former Wales international rugby union player. His usual position was on the wing or in the centres.The last team he played for was Worcester Warriors in the top level of English rugby, the Guinness Premiership. He previously played for the Newport Gwent Dragons in Wales and Harlequins of England.Luscombe attended Diocesan College, Cape Town. He has also played for the Wales under-21 team.

Lewis Oliver Haldane            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Lewis Oliver Haldane: is a Welsh football striker, who is currently on loan at Oxford United.Haldane was born in Trowbridge, due to parentage he has Welsh eligibility, and was called up to the U21 squad for the first time in August 2006.

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane            Origin/Culture/Country: English

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane: was a British-born Indian geneticist and evolutionary biologist. He was one of the founders (along with Ronald Fisher and Sewall Wright) of population genetics.He then accepted a position as Professor of Genetics and moved to University College London where he spent most of his academic career.[1] Four years later he became the first Weldon Professor of Biometry at University College London.[1]In 1923, in a talk given in Cambridge, Haldane, foreseeing the exhaustion of coal for power generation in Britain, proposed a network of hydrogen-generating windmills. This is the first proposal of the hydrogen-based renewable energy economy.[2]

John Scott Haldane            Origin/Culture/Country: Scottish

John Scott Haldane: was a Scottish physiologist famous for intrepid self-experimenting which led to many important discoveries about the human body and the nature of gases.[1] He locked himself in sealed chambers breathing lethal cocktails of gases while recording their effect on his mind and body. He visited the scenes of many mining disasters and investigated their causes.[2][1] When the Germans used poison gas in World War I Haldane went to the front at the request of British secretary of state, Lord Kitchener and attempted to identify the gases being used. One outcome of this was his invention of the first gas mask [1].[1] His son, J.B.S. Haldane became equally famous, both by extending his father's interest in diving and as a key figure in the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis.[1]