Augustus Volney Waller

Augustus Volney Waller FRS (21 December 1816 - 18 September 1870) was a British neurophysiologist. His son was Augustus Desiré Waller. He was the first to describe the degeneration of severed nerve fibers, now known as Wallerian degeneration.

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