William GARVEY - founder of modern physiology and embryology (to the 440th anniversary of his birth and 400th anniversary from the day of opening of the circulation)

William Harvey was born in 1578 in Folkestone. After graduating from private elementary school, William continued his education in the Royal school of Canterbury, Cambridge and Padua universities. In 1602 he received the degree of doctor of medicine, but in 1603, the second doctoral degree at Cambridge University and a license to practice a medical practice in England. In 1604 he was elected a candidate, and in 1607 – a member of the Royal College of physicians, later takes up the chair of anatomy and surgery, where she worked until death. In 1609 Harvey became the Junior, and later chief physician of the hospital of St. Bartholomew's in London. In 1618 William Harvey becoming court physician of James I, and in 1832 Charles I. In 1645 William was appointed Dean of Merton College (Oxford). In 1646 Garvey returned to London, where he devoted himself entirely to his studies. My thoughts about circulation he first gave the lecture, read them in London in 1618, and published in 1628. Research Garvey has revealed the importance of the pulmonary circulation and found that the heart is a muscular organ which provides the injection of blood into the circulatory system. In 1651 he published his second treatise "Studies on the origin of animals," which first formulated the theory of epigenesis. He stated and substantiated the idea that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. In 1654 Harvey was unanimously elected President of the London medical College, but for health reasons, refuses the position. Harvey died in 1657 and was buried in the town of Hempstead (Essex).