physiologist
Noun
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A biologist specializing in physiology (synset 110449729)
is a type of: biologist, life scientist - (biology) a scientist who studies living organismsspecific instances:
- adrian, baron adrian, edgar douglas adrian - English physiologist who conducted research into the function of neurons; 1st baron of Cambridge (1889-1997)
- 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; noted for research into industrial diseases (1860-1936)
- baron hermann ludwig ferdinand von helmholtz, helmholtz, hermann ludwig ferdinand von helmholtz, hermann 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)
- alan hodgkin, alan lloyd hodgkin, hodgkin, sir alan hodgkin - English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998)
- andrew fielding huxley, andrew huxley, 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)
- jacques loeb, loeb - United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924)
- john james rickard macleod, john macleod, macleod - Scottish physiologist who directed the research by F. G. Banting and C. H. Best that led to the discovery of insulin (1876-1935)
- johannes peter muller, muller - German physiologist and anatomist (1801-1858)
- ivan pavlov, ivan petrovich pavlov, pavlov - Russian physiologist who observed conditioned salivary responses in dogs (1849-1936)
- gregory goodwin pincus, gregory pincus, pincus - United States sexual physiologist whose hunch that progesterone could block ovulation led to the development of the oral contraceptive pill (1903-1967)
- jan evangelista purkinje, johannes evangelista purkinje, purkinje - Bohemian physiologist remembered for his discovery of Purkinje cells and the Purkinje network (1787-1869)
- m. j. schleiden, matthias schleiden, 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)
- lazzaro spallanzani, spallanzani - Italian physiologist who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation (1729-1799)
- e. h. weber, ernst heinrich weber, weber - German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878)
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