Physiologist
Discover the remarkable contributions of renowned scientists who have shaped our understanding of physiology as a discipline. From Nobel laureates to award-winning researchers, this list showcases the most influential physiologists who have advanced our knowledge of the human body and its functions.
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Dennis Hoagland
USAAmerican physiologist, botanist
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Albrecht Von Haller
SwitzerlandSwiss anatomist, botanist and physiologist.
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Karl Ludwig
GermanyGerman physiologist
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Sherburne Cook
USAAmerican physiologist.
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Barry Marshall
AustraliaWinner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology 2005.
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Yuriy Kulikovich
UkraineUkrainian doctor, candidate of medical sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
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William H. Dobelle
USAAmerican biomedical researcher
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John Gurdon
Great BritainBritish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate in medicine in 2012
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Jean Dausset
FranceFrench immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1980
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Rudzhero Oddy
ItalyItalian physiologist and anatomist.
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Max Delbruck
USANobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1969, jointly with Alfred Hershey and Salvador Luria
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Walter Rudolph Hess
SwitzerlandNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1949, jointly with Egas Moniz
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Tatiana Shapovalenko
RussiaHead of the Center for Restorative Medicine of the Ministry of Health and Social Development
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Johannes Muller
GermanyGerman naturalist, one of the founders of modern physiology, comparative anatomy and embryology.
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Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
FranceOutstanding French anatomist, physiologist and physician.
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Vasiliy Danilevsky
UkraineOutstanding physiologist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, doctor of medicine, professor
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Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
GermanyGerman physiologist and zoologist
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Guy Beckley Stearns
USADoctor, homeopath
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Ilia Cion
RussiaA famous physiologist
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Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
GermanyGerman pathologist and physiologist
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Herta Oberheuser
GermanyNazi doctor
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Walter Bradford Cannon
USAAmerican psychophysiologist, physiologist
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Ulf Svante Von Euler
SwedenSwedish physiologist Nobel laureate
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Henry Dale
Great BritainEnglish pharmacologist and physiologist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936 (together with O. Löwy) for the discovery of the role of acetylcholine in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses
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Billem Einthoven
NetherlandsDutch physician, physiologist, inventor of the first working device for measuring the electrical activity of the heart, Nobel Prize laureate.
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Ernst Salkowski
GermanyGerman physiologist
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Barbara McClintock
USAAmerican geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1983
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Emil Abderhalden
SwitzerlandFather of the Swiss physiologist Rudolf Abderhalden. Foreign Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences since 1925.
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Karl Hugo Kronecker
GermanyGerman physiologist
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Samuel Thomas Soemmering
GermanyGerman anatomist and physiologist.
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David Hunter Hubel
Great BritainNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1981, jointly with Roger W. Sperry and Torsten Wiesel
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Corneel Vandelanotte
USAPhysical activity and health researcher at Central Queensland University
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Charles Robert Richet
FranceFrench physiologist and immunologist, Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (1913)
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Hans Baruch
USAAmerican physiologist and inventor
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Frances Oldham Kelsey
USAAmerican pharmacologist
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Nathaniel Kleitman
USAAmerican neurophysiologist, pioneer of the scientific study of sleep
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Yonas Basanavichus
LithuaniaLithuanian doctor, folklorist, public figure
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John James Macleod
Great BritainNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1923, jointly with Frederick Banting
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Peter Doherty
AustraliaAustralian veterinarian and scientist
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Zoja Isgarysheva
RussiaDoctor-phoniologist
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Andrew Conway Ivy
USAAmerican physician and physiologist
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Etienne-Jules Marey
FranceFrench physiologist, inventor and photographer
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Linda Buck
USANobel laureate
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John Harvey Kellogg
USAAmerican doctor
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Bassiano Carminati
ItalyItalian physician and physiologist
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Ferdinand Klug
AustriaAustrian physiologist.
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Renato Dulbecco
USAItalian and American virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975
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Robert Edwards
Great BritainBritish physiologist and IVF pioneer
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Claude Bernard
FranceFrench physiologist
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Michael Servetus
SpainSpanish theologian, physician, cartographer and Renaissance humanist
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