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Indian medical scientist (1925–2004)

Autar Singh PaintalFRS (24 September 1925 – 21 December 2004)^[2] was an Indian medicalscientist who made pioneering discoveries in the area of neurosciences and respiratory sciences.

Autar singh paintal biography of michaels

He is the first Indian Physiologist to become the Fellow of the Royal Society, London.

His major contribution to the world of science is the development of a single-fiber technique for recording afferent impulses from individual sensory receptors.

Paintal discovered several sensory receptors including atrial B receptors, pulmonary J-receptors, ventricular pressure receptors, stomach stretch receptors, and muscle pain receptors. They have set the beginning of new era in physiological understanding.

Early and personal life

Autar Singh Paintal was born on September 24, 1925 to a PunjabiSikh family in Mogok, British Burma (now Myanmar) to Man Singh and Rajwans Kaur.^[3] His father was born in the small village of