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.

English biophysicist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate 1970.

Danish physiologist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1920

Walter Bradford Cannon

American psychophysiologist, physiologist

Ernest Henry Starling

English physiologist, founder of the English school of physiologists

Johann Blumenbach

A famous German anatomist, anthropologist and naturalist; doctor of medicine, professor.

English physiologist, grandson of Darwinist T. H. Huxley, Nobel Prize Laureate

David Hunter Hubel

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

Etienne-Jules Marey

French physiologist, inventor and photographer

British physiologist and IVF pioneer

Leonid Vasilyev

Russian psychophysiologist, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences.

Albrecht Von Haller

Swiss anatomist, botanist and physiologist.

Canadian neurophysiologist

John Harvey Kellogg

American doctor

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

A famous physiologist

Professor of Anatomy, Physiology and Forensic Medicine

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

Outstanding French anatomist, physiologist and physician.

Valeriy Kazakov

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

American biologist Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1974

Elizabeth Kenny

The most famous physiotherapist of his time

Walter Rudolph Hess

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

Gabriel Gustav Valentin

German-Swiss physiologist

American physiologist.

Herta Oberheuser

Nathaniel Kleitman

American neurophysiologist, pioneer of the scientific study of sleep

Edward Donnall Thomas

American doctor

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin

Barbara McClintock

American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1983

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology 2005.

Billem Einthoven

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

Zoja Isgarysheva

Doctor-phoniologist

William H. Dobelle

American biomedical researcher

Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold

German physiologist and zoologist

British scientist, Nobel Prize laureate in medicine in 2012

Vasiliy Danilevsky

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

Paolo Mantegazza

Italian physician, physiologist and anthropologist

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

German physician, physiologist, philosopher and teacher

Andre Frederic Cournand

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

American-born innovator, physician and medical researcher

Tatiana Shapovalenko

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

Danish physiotherapist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1903

Emil Bois-Reymond

German physiologist, philosopher

Yuriy Kulikovich

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

Italian physiologist and anatomist.

German physiologist

French scientist, doctor