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.

German physician, physiologist, philosopher and teacher

Johannes Muller

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

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology 2005.

Andrew Conway Ivy

American physician and physiologist

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

French immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1980

Andre Frederic Cournand

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

American physiologist and inventor

Jacob Augustus Lockhart Clarke

British physiologist and IVF pioneer

German physiologist

Edward Donnall Thomas

American doctor

Bassiano Carminati

Italian physician and physiologist

Valeriy Kazakov

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

Charles Robert Richet

French physiologist and immunologist, Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (1913)

Emil Abderhalden

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

Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle

German pathologist and physiologist

Herta Oberheuser

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

Outstanding French anatomist, physiologist and physician.

Gabriel Gustav Valentin

German-Swiss physiologist

Dutch anatomist

Yuriy Kulikovich

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

American virologist

Barbara McClintock

American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1983

Kagraman Kagramanov

Azerbaijani scientist, neurophysiologist, professor.

Scottish physiologist

Corneel Vandelanotte

Physical activity and health researcher at Central Queensland University

Austrian physiologist.

A famous physiologist

Karl Hugo Kronecker

German physiologist

Johann Heinrich Ferdinand von Autenrieth

German physician, professor of anatomy and physiology

Renato Dulbecco

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

Nathaniel Kleitman

American neurophysiologist, pioneer of the scientific study of sleep

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

William H. Dobelle

American biomedical researcher

Victor Alexander Horsley

An outstanding British scientist, neurophysiologist, surgeon, and founder of world neurosurgery.

French physiologist

Johann Blumenbach

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

John Harvey Kellogg

American doctor

Frederik Banting

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

Danish physiotherapist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1903

Leonid Vasilyev

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

David Hunter Hubel

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

Swiss anatomist and physiologist.

French anatomist, physiologist and physician

French scientist, doctor

Billem Einthoven

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

Ulf Svante Von Euler

Swedish physiologist Nobel laureate