Marcelle de Heredia Lapicque was a Black-Cuban French neurophysiologist known for her research on nerve impulses (chronaxie) and the effects of poisons on the neuromuscular junction. She supervised the Laboratoire des Hautes-Études General Physiology laboratory, and published many papers - with her husband, alone, and as a mentor to women.
- Occupation
- physiologist, neuroscientist
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- July 17, 1873
- Died
- January 25, 1960
