Elwood Henneman (* 1915 in Washington, D.C.; "† 22 February 1996) was an US-American neuro physiologist. College received Henneman its Bachelor conclusion at the Harvard 1937. 1943 terminated it its medicine study at the McGill university in Montreal.

To a research stay at the John Hopkins university it could point with its there coworker Vernon Montcastle that the body with its member masses in the cerebral cortex (Ventrolateraler Thalamus) is represented (Homunculus). Further research work at the Royal Victorian hospital and at the Illinois neuropsychiatric Institut in Chicago followed. There it made one of its most important discoveries. It could prove that the medicine Mephenesin Interneurone inhibiert and leads therefore to the muscle relaxation. This realization was helpful with the development of tranquilizers.

For the Scientific Community likewise of great importance was Hennemans description of the Motoneurons. The results of its experiments it summarized under after him designated "„Henneman size principle "“, after the Motoneurone on the basis of their size werden.1971 became recruited Henneman of chairmen of the institute for physiology in Harvard. He dressed this office up to his retirement 1984.

Elwood Henneman died on 1996 due to cycle failure at the age of 80 years.

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