English > physiologist: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A biologist specializing in physiology. |
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| Instances | Adrian, Edgar Douglas Adrian, Baron Adrian | English physiologist who conducted research into the function of neurons |
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| 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 / 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 / studies of the brain (1881-1973) |
| Hoagland, Hudson Hoagland | United States physiologist (1899-1982) |
| Hodgkin, Alan Hodgkin, Sir Alan Hodgkin, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin | English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998) |
| 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) |
| Broader | biologist, life scientist | (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms |
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| Spanish | fisióloga, fisiólogo |
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| Catalan | fisiòleg |
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| Nouns | physiology | processes and functions of an organism |
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| physiology | the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms |
