- Thomas Mills
Thomas Wesley Mills (1847 - 1915), generally referred to as T. Wesley Mills in the scientific literature, was a Canadian physician and
physiologist who worked as a professor atMcGill University . Mills was Canada's first professional physiologist and authored books and research articles oncomparative physiology , animal behavior, and the physiology of voice production. [Wallis, F. (2000). Mills, Thomas Wesley. "Dictionary of Canadian Biography."]After graduating from the
University of Toronto and teaching high school for two years, Mills began medical studies at McGill in 1876 and graduated with high honors in 1878. Mills was a close associate ofWilliam Osler , who influenced the direction of his career and introduced him to an international network of biomedical researchers. Mills traveled to London where he worked withJohn Scott Burdon-Sanderson andEdward Albert Schafer , Baltimore where he worked withHenry Newell Martin atJohns Hopkins University , Strasbourg withFelix Hoppe-Seyler andFriedrich Goltz , and Berlin withHugo Kronecker .Mills began teaching physiology at McGill in 1884, eventually becoming the Joseph Morley Drake professor of physiology in 1891. He founded the
Society for the Study of Comparative Physiology in 1885, was elected to theRoyal Society of Canada in 1890, and became president of theNatural History Society of Montreal in 1894.External links
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* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7604 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]References
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