Luigi Luciani

ForMemRS Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematic ...

(23 November 1842, in Ascoli Piceno – 23 June 1919) was an Italian

neuroscientist A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist who has specialised knowledge in neuroscience, a branch of biology that deals with the physiology, biochemistry, psychology, anatomy and molecular biology of neurons, neural circuits, and glial ...

. He also contributed to

Karel Frederik Wenckebach Karel Frederik Wenckebach (; March 24, 1864 – November 11, 1940) was a Dutch anatomist who was a native of the Hague. He studied medicine in Utrecht, and in 1901 become a professor of medicine at the University of Groningen. Later he was a profe ...

's work on what is now known as

second-degree atrioventricular block Second-degree atrioventricular block (AV block) is a disease of the electrical conduction system of the heart. It is a conduction block between the atria and ventricles. The presence of second-degree AV block is diagnosed when one or more (but ...

of the heart in which Wenckebach described the periodicity of this block as "Luciani periodicity."

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*http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/1853 *http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/101/22/2662.full *http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2702.html Italian neuroscientists 1842 births 1919 deaths Foreign Members of the Royal Society People from Ascoli Piceno {{Neuroscientist-stub