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.

Ernest Henry Starling

English physiologist, founder of the English school of physiologists

Walter Bradford Cannon

American psychophysiologist, physiologist

Michael Servetus

Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer and Renaissance humanist

Shinya Yamanaka

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

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

Samuel Thomas Soemmering

German anatomist and physiologist.

Ulf Svante Von Euler

Swedish physiologist Nobel laureate

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

American physician, poet and writer

Danish physiotherapist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1903

Yonas Basanavichus

Lithuanian doctor, folklorist, public figure

Dennis Hoagland

American physiologist, botanist

Professor of Anatomy, Physiology and Forensic Medicine

Billem Einthoven

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

French anatomist, physiologist and physician

French physiologist

British scientist, Nobel Prize laureate in medicine in 2012

English 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

Australian veterinarian and scientist

A famous physiologist

Kagraman Kagramanov

Azerbaijani scientist, neurophysiologist, professor.

Renato Dulbecco

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

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

Aviation doctor, physiologist

Canadian neurophysiologist

Italian physiologist and anatomist.

John Robin Warren

Australian pathologist and scientist

A famous German physiologist of the 19th century.

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin

Edgar Douglas Adrian

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1932, jointly with Charles Sherrington

Victor Alexander Horsley

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

Barbara McClintock

American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1983

American virologist

Herta Oberheuser

Johannes Muller

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

American physiologist.

Bassiano Carminati

Italian physician and physiologist

Edward Donnall Thomas

American doctor

Dutch anatomist

Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold

German physiologist and zoologist

John Harvey Kellogg

American doctor

Charles Robert Richet

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

Swiss anatomist and physiologist.

Frederik Banting

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

Etienne-Jules Marey

French physiologist, inventor and photographer

American biologist Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1974

Elizabeth Kenny

The most famous physiotherapist of his time

Nathaniel Kleitman

American neurophysiologist, pioneer of the scientific study of sleep