Jan Evangelista Purkyne, Praha - Relief Art Sculptures on Waymarking.com

Jan Evangelista Purkyne (18. prosince 1787 Libochovice – 28. cervence 1869 Praha) byl ceský fyziolog, anatom, biolog, básník a filozof; otec malíre Karla Purkyne. Svým príspevkem o živocišných tkáních složených z bunek s jádry (v Karolinu roku 1837)se stal jedním ze spoluzakladatelu cytologie.

Purkyne was born in Libochovice, Bohemia. In 1819 he graduated from the University of Prague with a degree in medicine, where he was appointed a Professor of Physiology after writing his doctoral dissertation. Working at the university, he discovered the Purkinje effect, whereby as light intensity decreases red objects seem to fade faster than blue objects of the same brightness. He published two volumes Observations and Experiments Investigating the Physiology of Senses and New Subjective Reports about Vision, which contributed to the emergence of the science of experimental psychology. He created the world's first Department of Physiology at the University of Breslau in Prussia in 1839 and the world's first official physiology laboratory in 1842. Here he was a founder of the Literary-Slav Society.

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