Index

Note: Bold page numbers refer to tables and italic page numbers refer to fgures.

Abe, Zenmon 65

action potential 37–39, 124

acute coronary syndrome 263

Adams, William 40

Adrian, Edgar Douglas 65

AFD sensory neurons 219

air electricity 125

air ion 76–78, 123–125, 137

Aldini, Giovanni 32–34, 47

amber 23

American paddlefsh (Polyodon spathula) 227

Ampère, André Marie 35

Ampere’s law 4

ampullae of Lorenzini 131, 226

animal electricity 32, 34, 36

animal magnetism 27, 28

animal tissue impedance 55

Aoyagi, Takuho 72–73

Arabidopsis thaliana 168, 169, 199, 200

Arago, Dominique François 35

Aristotle 22

Arrhenius, Svante August 48

artifcial electricity 32

artifcial pacemaker 74–75

Ashkin, Arthur 18

astatic galvanometer 36

atmospheric electricity 30–31, 123–129

atmospherics 111, 112

Audion valve 73

Augustus, Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar 23

Australian silvereyes 156

avian magnetic compass 157, 221

Bach, Johann Sebastian 40

Bacon, Roger 24

Baker, Richard. F 55

Baker, Robin. R 133

Bakken, Earl Elmer 75

Bancrof, Edward 32

Bardeen, John 73, 74

Bardeen-Cooper-Schriefer theory 74

Barker, Anthony Tony 48, 69

Barlowm, Horace Basil 49

Barnes Frank 12, 153–154

Bartels, Julius 259

Bartholow, Roberts 47

basic restriction 309, 311–313

Bassett, C. Andrew L. 48

Baule, Gerhard 8, 66

Beaugnon, Eric 63

Beck, Adolf 54

Beck, Claude 74

Becker, Robert Otto 48, 82

Becquerel, Alexandre Edmond 62

Beer, Berthold 49

Bellini, Salvatore 136, 218

Berger, Hans 54

Bernard, Claude 50

Bernstein, Julius 37–38

Bertholon, Pierre 42

Bickford, Reginald G. 68

Billroth, Christian Albert Teodor 74

bioelectricity 3, 7, 8, 22, 52

bioelectric source 52–54

development

developing stage 35–40

early stage 32–35

Bioelectromagnetics Society (BEMS) 4

bioelectromagnetism 6–9; see also specifc entries

development of 26–41

discovery and frst step in 22–26

new instrumental era 73–75

progress, twentieth century 52–75

biological systems 15, 105–137

atmospheric and cosmic environments 106–108

atmospheric electricity and 123–129

electric properties of 54–57

and electromagnetic felds 116–123

electromagnetic felds harmonization 9–10

atmospheric electricity coupling 10

safety aspects 10–13

and human 116–119

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