"Professor Ainslie Grey had not come down to
breakfast at the usual hour. The presentation
chiming-clock which stood between the terra-cotta
busts of Claude Bernard and of John Hunter upon the
dining-room mantelpiece had rung out the half-hour
and the three-quarters. Now its golden hand was
verging upon the nine, and yet there were no signs of
the master of the house."

A justly famous French physiologist. I'll have to look him up to see if I can cite some of his work to give you a clue
why he I respect him.I found it difficult to give a convincing sample of his discoveries, but here is what one of his biographers wrote:
Renato M.E. Sabbatini, PhD

Claude Bernard was a French physiologist, one of the most important of all times, and who is considered the "father" of modern experimental physiology.