Joshua Harold Burn
Joshua Harold Burn FRS (6 March 1892 – 13 July 1981) was an English pharmacologist and professor of pharmacology at Oxford University. Burn worked on the internal control of the body by the autonomic nervous system, carrying out seminal work on the release of noradrenaline from these nerves and introducing the controversial Burn-Rand hypothesis. The Nobel Laureate John Vane claimed "If anyone can be said to have moulded the subject of pharmacology around the world, it is he". Life Burn was born in Barnard Castle, County Durham, England. He was educated at Barnard Castle School. Burn entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1909 where he read the Natural Sciences Tripos. He specialised in physiology for Part II. His tutor was Frederick Gowland Hopkins. After receiving his BA he was awarded a research grant by Emmanuel College and a Michael Foster Studentship by the university. The next 18 months were spent in research with Joseph Barcroft. Other figures in physiology at Cambridge at the time were Keith Lucas and the Nobel Laureates Archibald Hill and Edgar Adrian. In January 1914 Burn went to work for Henry Hallett Dale in London. In October 1914, Burn enlisted in the army as a Signals Officer