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Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858.
Claude Bernard became a professor at the Sorbonne in 1854, when a chair of general physiology was specifically created for him. He held this position until 1868, at which point he left to accept a new professorship at the Jardin des Plantes.1