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Edgar Douglas Adrian
English physiologist who conducted research into the function of neurons; 1st baron of Cambridge (1889-1997)
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Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941)
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Claude Bernard
French physiologist noted for research on secretions of the alimentary canal and the glycogenic function of the liver (1813-1878)
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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)
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Sir John Carew Eccles
Australian physiologist noted for his research on the conduction of impulses by nerve cells (1903-1997)
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Willem Einthoven
Dutch physiologist who devised the first electrocardiograph (1860-1927)
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Luigi Galvani
Italian physiologist noted for his discovery that frogs' muscles contracted in an electric field (which led to the galvanic cell) (1737-1798)
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John Scott Haldane
Scottish physiologist and brother of Richard Haldane and Elizabeth Haldane; noted for research into industrial diseases (1860-1936)
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Baron Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz
German physiologist and physicist (1821-1894)
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Walter Rudolf Hess
Swiss physiologist noted for studies of the brain (1881-1973)
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Hudson Hoagland
United States physiologist (1899-1982)
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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)
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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)
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Jacques Loeb
United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924)
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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)
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Johannes Peter Muller
German physiologist and anatomist (1801-1858)
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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
Russian physiologist who observed conditioned salivary responses in dogs (1849-1936)
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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)
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Johannes Evangelista Purkinje
Bohemian physiologist remembered for his discovery of Purkinje cells and the Purkinje network (1787-1869)
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Matthias Schleiden
German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 formulated the cell theory (1804-1881)
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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)
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Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
English physiologist who conducted research on reflex action (1857-1952)
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Lazzaro Spallanzani
Italian physiologist who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation (1729-1799)
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Ernst Heinrich Weber
German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878)
