Editing J. B. S. Haldane (section)

=== Personal life ===

Haldane was married twice, first to [[Charlotte Haldane|Charlotte Franken]] and then to [[Helen Spurway]].<ref>[https://www.bmj.com/content/2/5423/1536 "J.S.B. Haldane"], Obituary Notices, ''Br Med J'', 1964;2:1536.</ref> In 1924, Haldane met Charlotte Franken, who was a journalist for the ''[[Daily Express]]'' and married to Jack Burghes. Following the publication of Haldane's ''Daedalus, or Science and the Future'', she interviewed Haldane and they began a relationship.<ref name=":4" /> In order to marry Haldane, Franken filed a divorce suit, which resulted in controversy as Haldane was involved as co-respondent in the legal proceeding.<ref name=":5" /> Additionally, as [[Sahotra Sarkar]] reported: "For her to secure a divorce, Haldane overtly committed adultery with her".<ref name=":8" /> Haldane's conduct was described as "gross immorality", for which he was formally dismissed by Cambridge's Sex Viri (a six-member disciplinary committee) from the university in 1925. Cambridge professors, including [[G. K. Chesterton]], [[Bertrand Russell]], and W. L. George, raised their defence for Haldane insisting that the university should not make such judgements, based solely on a professor's private life.<ref name=":1" /> The ouster was revoked in 1926. Haldane and Charlotte Franken were married in 1926. Following their separation in 1942, they divorced in 1945. Later that year he married [[Helen Spurway]], his former PhD student.<ref>GRO marriage register Dec 1945 Pancras</ref> He also had an affair with [[Angel Records]] founder [[Dorle Soria]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-15 |title=Book Review: "Master Lovers" -- An Inventive and Intelligent Fictional Memoir - The Arts Fuse |url=https://artsfuse.org/285776/book-review-master-lovers-an-inventive-and-intelligent-fictional-memoir/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |website=artsfuse.org/ |language=en-US}}</ref>

Haldane once boasted about himself, saying, "I can read 11 languages and make public speeches in three; but am unmusical. I am a fairly competent public speaker."<ref name=":1" /> He had no children,<ref name=":1" /> but he and his father were important influences to his sister Naomi's children, of whom [[Denis Mitchison]], [[Murdoch Mitchison]], and [[Avrion Mitchison]] became professors of biology at the [[University of London]], [[Edinburgh University]], and University College London, respectively.<ref name=":0" />

Inspired by his father, Haldane often used self-experimentation and would expose himself to danger in order to obtain data. To test the effects of acidification of the blood he drank dilute [[hydrochloric acid]], enclosed himself in an airtight room containing 7% carbon dioxide, and found that it 'gives one a rather violent headache'. One experiment to study elevated levels of [[oxygen saturation]] triggered a fit that resulted in his suffering crushed [[vertebrae]].<ref name="jobling2">{{cite journal|author=Jobling MA|year=2012|title=The unexpected always happens|journal=Investigative Genetics|volume=3|issue=1|page=5|doi=10.1186/2041-2223-3-5|pmc=3298498|pmid=22357349 |doi-access=free }}</ref> In his [[decompression chamber]] experiments, he and his volunteers suffered [[perforated eardrum]]s. But, as Haldane stated in ''What is Life'',<ref>{{cite archive|url=https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/8631282|title=What is Life|author=J. B. S. Haldane|date=1947|publisher=Boni and Gaer|collection=Stephen Jay Gould Collection|collection-url=https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/sp673gr4168|institution=[[Stanford University]]|repository=Stanford Library|item-id=Q171 .H1565 1947|type=book|location=[[Palo Alto, California]]}}</ref> "the drum generally heals up; and if a hole remains in it, although one is somewhat deaf, one can blow tobacco smoke out of the ear in question, which is a social accomplishment".<ref name=Bryson2003>{{cite book|last=Bryson|first= Bill|author-link=Bill Bryson|title=A Short History Of Nearly Everything|edition= 1st|location= New York|publisher= Broadway Books|date=2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_CWlKRYLbIwC&pg=PT149|page=149|isbn=978-0-385-67450-8}}</ref>

Haldane made himself unpopular among his colleagues from the start of his academic career. In Cambridge, he annoyed most of the senior faculty due to his uninhibited behaviour, particularly at dinner. His partisan, [[Edgar Adrian]] (a [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|1932 Nobel]] laureate), had almost convinced [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]] to offer him an appointment as a Fellow, but that was ruined by an incident when Haldane arrived at the dining table carrying a gallon jar of urine from his laboratory.<ref name=":8" />