Samson Wright (5 July 1899 - 10 March 1956) was a British medical

physiologist Physiology (; ) is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system. As a sub-discipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ systems, individual organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical ...

who is mentioned as "undoubtedly the greatest teacher of physiology of his generation and author of the world famous textbook ''Applied Physiology''" in his biographical memoir published at his birth centenary in the

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. Samson Wright's Applied Physiology textbook has been translated into many languages. After his death his pupil wrote the newer editions till thirteenth edition. The book remains a bible for experimental physiology.

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1899 births 1956 deaths 20th-century British medical doctors {{UK-med-bio-stub