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Julius Bernstein (18 December 1839 – 6 February 1917) was a German physiologist born in Berlin. His father was Aron Bernstein (1812–1884), a founder of the Reform Judaism Congregation in Berlin 1845; his son was the mathematician Felix Bernstein (1878–1956).
Julius Bernstein belonged to the Berlin school of "organic physicists" who played a prominent role in creating modern physiology and biophysics during the second half of the nineteenth century.
In 1902, Julius Bernstein postulated that nerve impulses represented a temporary "breakdown" of the membrane resistance. In this view, the peak of the action potential represented the point of minimum resistance (or maximum conductance) and thus would simply approach zero millivolts.
Dec 8, 2005 · Julius Bernstein belonged to the Berlin school of “organic physicists” who played a prominent role in creating modern physiology and biophysics during the second half of the nineteenth century. He trained under du Bois-Reymond in Berlin, worked with von Helmholtz in Heidelberg, and finally became Professor of Physiology at the ...
Feb 1, 2006 · Julius Bernstein, with the help of Emil du Bois-Reymond, found a way to overcome these technical limitations and in about 1865 made the first recordings of the time course of the action...
Who was Julius Bernstein? And why was he a pioneer in neurobiology and biophysics? Here, I first provide some biographical information on Bernstein, his family background, and his academic career.
Dec 27, 2005 · Julius Bernstein belonged to the Berlin school of “organic physicists” who played a prominent role in creating modern physiology and biophysics during the second half of the nineteenth century and provided the first plausible physico-chemical model of bioelectric events.
