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.

Andrew Conway Ivy

American physician and physiologist

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

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

Charles Robert Richet

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

Yuriy Kulikovich

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

American virologist

Scottish physiologist

Austrian physiologist.

Nathaniel Kleitman

American neurophysiologist, pioneer of the scientific study of sleep

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

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

Azerbaijani scientist, doctor of medical sciences, professor

English biophysicist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate 1970.

Ernest Henry Starling

English physiologist, founder of the English school of physiologists

Walter Bradford Cannon

American psychophysiologist, physiologist

Ernst Salkowski

German physiologist

Australian veterinarian and scientist

Paolo Mantegazza

Italian physician, physiologist and anthropologist

British scientist, Nobel Prize laureate in medicine in 2012

Emil Bois-Reymond

German physiologist, philosopher

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

Guy Beckley Stearns

Doctor, homeopath

Tatiana Shapovalenko

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

Aviation doctor, physiologist

Shinya Yamanaka

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

Frances Oldham Kelsey

American pharmacologist

Albrecht Von Haller

Swiss anatomist, botanist and physiologist.

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

Michael Servetus

Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer and Renaissance humanist

American-born innovator, physician and medical researcher

Vasiliy Danilevsky

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

American physiologist.

Barbara McClintock

American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1983

English physiologist, one of the founders of biophysics and operations research. Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1922.

Ulf Svante Von Euler

Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1970

Etienne-Jules Marey

French physiologist, inventor and photographer

English pharmacologist and physiologist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936

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