Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon

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Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon

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Birthplace: Prairie du Chien, Crawford, Wisconsin, United States
Death: October 01, 1945 (73)
Franklin, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Dr. Colbert Hanchett Cannon and Sarah Wilma Cannon
Husband of Cornelia Cannon
Father of Dr. Bradford Cannon; Wilma Denio Fairbank; Linda Burgess; Marian Schlesinger and Helen Bond
Brother of Bernice May Cannon; Ida Maude Cannon; Jen Cannon and Jane Laura Williams

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About Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon

Walter Bradford Cannon, M.D., was an American physiologist, professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. He coined the term fight or flight response, and he expanded on Claude Bernard's concept of homeostasis. He popularized his theories in his book The Wisdom of the Body, first published in 1932.

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Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon's Timeline

1871
October 19, 1871
Prairie du Chien, Crawford, Wisconsin, United States
1907
December 2, 1907
1909
April 23, 1909
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1911
March 18, 1911
1912
September 9, 1912
Franklin, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States
1915
February 1915
1945
October 1, 1945
Age 73
Franklin, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States