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.

Shinya Yamanaka

Japanese scientist, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1984 jointly with Georg Köhler and Cesar Milstein

Elizabeth Kenny

The most famous physiotherapist of his time

Ulf Svante Von Euler

Swedish physiologist Nobel laureate

Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold

German physiologist and zoologist

Paolo Mantegazza

Italian physician, physiologist and anthropologist

Tatiana Shapovalenko

Head of the Center for Restorative Medicine of the Ministry of Health and Social Development

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology 2005.

French scientist, doctor

Emil Abderhalden

Father of the Swiss physiologist Rudolf Abderhalden. Foreign Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences since 1925.

American physiologist.

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

Outstanding French anatomist, physiologist and physician.

Swiss anatomist and physiologist.

Frederik Banting

Canadian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate, who obtained pure insulin in 1921

American physiologist and inventor

French anatomist, physiologist and physician

Karl Hugo Kronecker

German physiologist

Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1943, jointly with Henrik Dam

Herta Oberheuser

Ernst Salkowski

German physiologist

A famous physiologist

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1969, jointly with Alfred Hershey and Salvador Luria

Albrecht Von Haller

Swiss anatomist, botanist and physiologist.

Kagraman Kagramanov

Azerbaijani scientist, neurophysiologist, professor.

American virologist

Australian veterinarian and scientist

British scientist, Nobel Prize laureate in medicine in 2012

Valeriy Kazakov

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Physiology

Yuriy Kulikovich

Ukrainian doctor, candidate of medical sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Billem Einthoven

Dutch physician, physiologist, inventor of the first working device for measuring the electrical activity of the heart, Nobel Prize laureate.

Andre Frederic Cournand

American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1956

Etienne-Jules Marey

French physiologist, inventor and photographer

Ernest Henry Starling

English physiologist, founder of the English school of physiologists

Vasiliy Danilevsky

Outstanding physiologist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, doctor of medicine, professor

Barbara McClintock

American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1983

German physiologist

Walter Rudolph Hess

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1949, jointly with Egas Moniz

Danish physiotherapist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1903

Samuel Thomas Soemmering

German anatomist and physiologist.

Johannes Muller

German naturalist, one of the founders of modern physiology, comparative anatomy and embryology.

Zoja Isgarysheva

Doctor-phoniologist

Renato Dulbecco

Italian and American virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975

Azerbaijani scientist, doctor of medical sciences, professor

David Hunter Hubel

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1981, jointly with Roger W. Sperry and Torsten Wiesel

Nathaniel Kleitman

American neurophysiologist, pioneer of the scientific study of sleep

Frances Oldham Kelsey

American pharmacologist

Austrian physiologist.

German physician, physiologist, philosopher and teacher