biologist, life scientist - (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms

Baron Adrian, Edgar Douglas Adrian, 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)

C. H. Best, Charles Herbert Best, 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)

John Haldane, John Scott Haldane, 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)

Walter Hess, Walter Rudolf Hess, Hess - Swiss physiologist noted for studies of the brain (1881-1973)

Hoagland, Hudson Hoagland - United States physiologist (1899-1982)

Alan Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, 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)

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)