Jean Pierre Flourens, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean Pierre Flourens

Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1794

Place of Birth: Maureilhan, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 06-Dec-1867

Profession: physician, politician, professor, biologist, physiologist, neuroscientist, anatomist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Marie Jean Pierre Flourens (13 April 1794 – 6 December 1867), father of Gustave Flourens, was a French physiologist, the founder of experimental brain science and a pioneer in anesthesia.
Through the study of ablations on animals, he was the first to prove that the mind was located in the brain, not the heart.