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.

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

American-born innovator, physician and medical researcher

Tatiana Shapovalenko

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

Emil Bois-Reymond

German physiologist, philosopher

Italian physiologist and anatomist.

German physiologist

American pathophysiologist and hematologist, Nobel laureate

Australian veterinarian and scientist

Swiss anatomist and physiologist.

Kagraman Kagramanov

Azerbaijani scientist, neurophysiologist, professor.

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

Renato Dulbecco

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

Emil Abderhalden

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

Samuel Thomas Soemmering

German anatomist and physiologist.

Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle

German pathologist and physiologist

Bassiano Carminati

Italian physician and physiologist

Scottish physiologist

Victor Alexander Horsley

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

Andrew Conway Ivy

American physician and physiologist

Michael Servetus

Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer and Renaissance humanist

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

American physician, poet and writer

Dennis Hoagland

American physiologist, botanist

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

Johannes Muller

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

Corneel Vandelanotte

Physical activity and health researcher at Central Queensland University

Frederik Banting

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

Dutch anatomist

Aviation doctor, physiologist

Yonas Basanavichus

Lithuanian doctor, folklorist, public figure

Jacob Augustus Lockhart Clarke

John James Macleod

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1923, jointly with Frederick Banting

French anatomist, physiologist and physician

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1922, jointly with Otto Meyerhof

Azerbaijani scientist, doctor of medical sciences, professor

Karl Hugo Kronecker

German physiologist

Frances Oldham Kelsey

American pharmacologist

French physiologist

Edgar Douglas Adrian

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

A famous German physiologist of the 19th century.

Charles Robert Richet

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

John Robin Warren

Australian pathologist and scientist

American physiologist and inventor

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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