Ernest Starling was a British physiologist born on April 17 1866 and died on May 2 1927.

Starling is most famous for developing the "Frank-Starling Law of the Heart ", as Starling put it:

"The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a function of the length of the muscle fibre"

Starling was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1899.

See also

• Starling's hypothesis

External links

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