a biologist specializing in physiology

Adrian / Edgar Douglas Adrian / Baron Adrian - English physiologist who conducted research into the function of neurons
Banting / F. G. Banting / Sir Frederick Grant Banting - Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941)
Bernard / Claude Bernard - French physiologist noted for research on secretions of the alimentary canal and the glycogenic function of the liver (1813-1878)
Best / C. H. Best / Charles Herbert Best - Canadian physiologist (born in the United States) who assisted F. G. Banting in research leading to the discovery of insulin (1899-1978)
Eccles / John Eccles / Sir John Carew Eccles - Australian physiologist noted for his research on the conduction of impulses by nerve cells (1903-1997)
Einthoven / Willem Einthoven - Dutch physiologist who devised the first electrocardiograph (1860-1927)
Galvani / Luigi Galvani - Italian physiologist noted for his discovery that frogs'' muscles contracted in an electric field (which led to the galvanic cell) (1737-1798)
Haldane / John Haldane / John Scott Haldane - Scottish physiologist and brother of Richard Haldane and Elizabeth Haldane
Helmholtz / Hermann von Helmholtz / Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz / Baron Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz - German physiologist and physicist (1821-1894)
Hess / Walter Hess / Walter Rudolf Hess - Swiss physiologist noted for studies of the brain (1881-1973)
Hoagland / Hudson Hoagland - United States physiologist (1899-1982)
Hodgkin / Alan Hodgkin / Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin - English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1914)
Huxley / Andrew Huxley / Andrew Fielding Huxley - English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917)
Loeb / Jacques Loeb - United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924)
Macleod / John Macleod / John James Rickard Macleod - Scottish physiologist who directed the research by F. G. Banting and C. H. Best that led to the discovery of insulin (1876-1935)
Muller / Johannes Peter Muller - German physiologist and anatomist (1801-1858)
Pavlov / Ivan Pavlov / Ivan Petrovich Pavlov - Russian physiologist who observed conditioned salivary responses in dogs (1849-1936)
Pincus / Gregory Pincus / Gregory Goodwin Pincus - United States sexual physiologist whose hunch that progesterone could block ovulation led to the development of the oral contraceptive pill (1903-1967)
Purkinje / Jan Evangelista Purkinje / Johannes Evangelista Purkinje - Bohemian physiologist remembered for his discovery of Purkinje cells and the Purkinje network (1787-1869)
Schleiden / Matthias Schleiden / M. J. Schleiden - German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 formulated the cell theory (1804-1881)
Schwann / Theodor Schwann - German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 and 1839 identified the cell as the basic structure of plant and animal tissue (1810-1882)
Sherrington / Sir Charles Scott Sherrington - English physiologist who conducted research on reflex action (1857-1952)
Spallanzani / Lazzaro Spallanzani - Italian physiologist who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation (1729-1799)
Weber / E. H. Weber / Ernst Heinrich Weber - German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878)

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