Physiologist Collection

Professor August Krogh, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Professor August Krogh, between c1915 and c1920. Shows August Krogh (1874-1949), a Danish professor of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen

Dr. Emil Abderhalden, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Dr. Emil Abderhalden, between c1910 and c1915

Statue of John Hunter, by H. Weekes, R.A. in the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Statue of John Hunter, by H. Weekes, R.A. in the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1864. John Hunter...is, by common consent of his successors

Professor Franciscus Donders (1818-1889), Physiologist and Opthalmologist, 1888

Portrait of François Vincent Raspail (1794-1878), chemist and politician, between 1794 and 1878. Creator: Unknown
Portrait of Francois Vincent Raspail (1794-1878), chemist and politician, between 1794 and 1878

Portrait of François Magendie, c. 1822. Creator: Julien Leopold Boilly
Portrait of Francois Magendie, c. 1822

Claude Bernard, [French physiologist], c. 1876. Creator: Valery
Claude Bernard, [French physiologist], c. 1876. Woodburytype, from the periodical " Galerie Contemporaine Litteraire, Artistique" (1877), volume 4

J. Abernethy, (1846). Creator: John Cochran
J. Abernethy, (1846). Portrait of British surgeon and physiologist John Abernethy (1764-1831), who was a pupil of the prominent surgeon John Hunter. [Fisher, Son & Co, London, 1846]

John Abernethy F. R. S. 1819. Creator: J Thomson
John Abernethy F.R.S. 1819. Portrait of John Abernethy, English surgeon and physiologist. Abernethy (1764-1831) was a pupil of the prominent surgeon John Hunter

Professor EP Cathcart, CBE. FRS. (Glasgow University), 1926. Artist: Norah Neilson Gray
Professor EP Cathcart, CBE. FRS. (Glasgow University), 1926. Edward Provan Cathcart (1877-1954), Scottish physician and physiologist. From The Studio Volume 91

Sir Benjamin Brodie, English doctor, c1860 (1878). Benjamin Collins Brodie (1783-1862) was a physiologist and surgeon who pioneered research into bone and joint disease

Professor Rene Leriche, French surgeon and physiologist, 1939. A photograph from Album de Photographies, Dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1855-1915, Editions MD, 22 Rue de L Arcade, Paris 8

Etienne-Jules Marey, French physiologist and pioneer of cinematography, 1901. Marey (1830-1904) was a French physiologist who pioneered the use of photography to record and analyse movement

Claude Bernard, French physiologist, 1876. Bernard (1813-1878) investigated the liver, discovering glycogen, and determined that most of the process of digestion occurs in the small intestine

William Hyde Wollaston, Physiologist, chemist and physicist, 19th century. Artist: William Hyde Wollaston
William Hyde Wollaston, Physiologist, chemist and physicist, 19th century

Benjamin Ward Richardson, British physician and writer on medical history, 1883. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
Benjamin Ward Richardson, British physician and writer on medical history, 1883. Richardson was an eminent physician, anaesthetist and physiologist

William Benjamin Carpenter, CB, MD, LLD, FRS, FLS, FGS, English physiologist and naturalist, 1883. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate

John Abernethy, English surgeon and physiologist. Artist: J Cochran
John Abernethy, English surgeon and physiologist. Abernethy (1764-1831) was a pupil of the prominent surgeon John Hunter

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, c1900
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, German physicist and physiologist, c1900. The inventor of the opthalmoscope (1850)

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, German physicist and physiologist, 1907. The inventor of the opthalmoscope (1850)

Claude Bernard, 19th century French physiologist, 1913. Obverse of a silver plaquette commemorating the centenary of his birth

Medal commemorating Claude Bernard, French physiologist, 19th century. Bernard (1813-1878) investigated the liver, discovering glycogen

Claude Bernard, French physiologist, 19th century. From the obverse of a commemorative medal. Bernard (1813-1878) investigated the liver, discovering glycogen

John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, British physiologist, 1894. Artist: Spy
John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, British physiologist, 1894. Burdon-Sanderson (1828-1905) was Regius professor of medicine at Oxford

Luigi Galvani, 18th century Italian physiologist, 1880
Luigi Galvani, 18th century Italian physiologist, [1880]. Galvani (1737-1798) discovered animal electricity (voltaic or galvanic electricity)

Reverse of medal commemorating 50 years of cinematography by the Lumiere brothers, 1945. August (1862-1954) and Louis Lumiere (1864-1948), French chemists and pioneers of cinematography, 1945

Obverse of medal commemorating 50 years of cinematography by the Lumiere brothers, 1945. August (1862-1954) and Louis Lumiere (1864-1948), French chemists and pioneers of cinematography

Louis Jean Lumiere (1864-1948), pioneer of cinematography, c1935
Louis Jean Lumiere (1864-1948), French chemist and pioneer of cinematography, c1935. Collaborated with his elder brother, Auguste. From obverse of commemorative plaquette

Etienne Jules Marey (1830-1903), French physiologist, 19th century. Pioneer of cinematography. From reverse of commemorative plaquette showing Marey at his desk

Etienne Jules Marey (1830-1903), with cine camera, 1903
Etienne Jules Marey (1830-1903), French physiologist, with cine camera, 1903. Top: Chambre chrono-photographique, the first cine-camera, is used to study movement of creatures in aquarium

Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894), German physicist and physiologist, 1894
Hermann Helmholtz (1821-1894). German physicist and physiologist, inventor of the Opthalmascope. Seen here giving a lecture on 7 July 1894 shortly before his death

Charles Herbert Best, Canadian physiologist, 1960. Bell (1899-1978) with an assistant (left) in the laboratory. Bell assisted Frederick Banting to isolate insulin (1921)

George von Bekesy (1899-1972), Hungarian-born American physiologist. He won the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1961 for his pioneering research into the function of the inner ear

John Abernethy (1764-1831), English surgeon and physiologist, 1842. Abernethy was a pupil of the prominent surgeon John Hunter

Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), German bacteriologist
Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915) German bacteriologist. Specialist in the fields of Haematology, Chemotherapy and Immunology. Shared Nobel prize for medicine or physiology with Mechnikov in 1908

Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941), Canadian physiologist, 1923. Banting and his assistant, CH Best, discovered insulin in 1921

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