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.

Ulf Svante Von Euler

Swedish physiologist Nobel laureate

French anatomist, physiologist and physician

Canadian neurophysiologist

Bassiano Carminati

Italian physician and physiologist

Johannes Muller

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

Edward Donnall Thomas

American doctor

British scientist, Nobel Prize laureate in medicine in 2012

Billem Einthoven

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

American-born innovator, physician and medical researcher

William H. Dobelle

American biomedical researcher

French scientist, doctor

Frances Oldham Kelsey

American pharmacologist

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

American biologist Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1974

Italian physiologist and anatomist.

Zoja Isgarysheva

Doctor-phoniologist

Corneel Vandelanotte

Physical activity and health researcher at Central Queensland University

English biophysicist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate 1970.

Gabriel Gustav Valentin

German-Swiss physiologist

Herta Oberheuser

Walter Rudolph Hess

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

Elizabeth Kenny

The most famous physiotherapist of his time

American pathophysiologist and hematologist, Nobel laureate

Andre Frederic Cournand

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

Barbara McClintock

American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1983

Etienne-Jules Marey

French physiologist, inventor and photographer

French physiologist

Frederik Banting

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

Yuriy Kulikovich

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

French immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1980

Johann Heinrich Ferdinand von Autenrieth

German physician, professor of anatomy and physiology

British physiologist and IVF pioneer

American physiologist.

A famous physiologist

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

Guy Beckley Stearns

Doctor, homeopath

Ernest Henry Starling

English physiologist, founder of the English school of physiologists

Yonas Basanavichus

Lithuanian doctor, folklorist, public figure

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

American physician, poet and writer

Emil Abderhalden

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

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

Andrew Conway Ivy

American physician and physiologist

Leonid Vasilyev

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

Dutch anatomist

Albrecht Von Haller

Swiss anatomist, botanist and physiologist.

Jacob Augustus Lockhart Clarke

John Harvey Kellogg

American doctor

Kagraman Kagramanov

Azerbaijani scientist, neurophysiologist, professor.

Danish physiotherapist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1903