Home›Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists›Era (Birth Year)›By Century›20th centuryBrowse By20th centuryThis dimension groups healers by the year they were born, showing which generation of medicine they belong to. Wikipedia notes that "both the role of doctors and the meaning of the word itself vary around the world," a role that has looked different in every generation of medical practice. Browsing by birth year lets a visitor compare healers from the same generation.Facts20th centurySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonTradition or RegionWell-attestedAncient Greece 120th centuryFilter Results38 entriesHealing TraditionAllClinical Physician-Scientists of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2)Hormone, Vitamin and Drug Discoverers (8)Imaging, Radiation and Monitoring Instrument Inventors (4)Molecular Biologists and Geneticists (8)Physiologists, Anatomists and Natural Historians of Medicine (9)Reproductive Technology Inventors (1)Specialist InAllCardiology (1)Endocrinology (4)Genetics (1)Infectious Disease (2)Internal Medicine (2)Medical Genetics (3)Neuroscience (2)Obstetrics and Gynecology (1)Oncology (2)Pediatrics (1)Pharmacology (3)Physiology (1)Radiology (1)Traditional Chinese Medicine (1)Virology (1)Profession/RoleAllClinical Physician-Scientists of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2)Hormone, Vitamin and Drug Discoverers (8)Imaging, Radiation and Monitoring Instrument Inventors (4)Molecular Biologists and Geneticists (8)Physiologists, Anatomists and Natural Historians of Medicine (9)Reproductive Technology Inventors (1)NationalityAllCanada (1)China (1)France (1)Germany (11)Italy (1)Japan (1)Netherlands (1)Norway (1)Poland (1)Russia (3)Scotland (1)Soviet Union (1)Spain (1)Sweden (1)United Kingdom (4)United States (12)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 38Achim Peters20th centuryAkira Endo20th centuryAllan MacLeod Cormack20th centuryAndreas Gruentzig20th centuryAndrew Schally20th centuryAxel Kahn20th centuryBaruch Samuel Blumberg20th centuryBernard Katz20th centuryBert B. A. de Vries20th centuryDaniel Bovet20th centuryDaniel Carleton Gajdusek20th centuryDavid Bodian20th centuryDinara Uzbekova20th centuryEarl Wilbur Sutherland Jr.20th centuryErnst Boris Chain20th centuryFrederik Paulsen Sr20th centuryHaldan Keffer Hartline20th centuryHans Selye20th centuryHeinrich Matthaei20th centuryJ. Michael Bishop20th centuryJames Black (pharmacologist)20th centuryJohn M. Opitz20th centuryJon Sudbø20th centuryKonrad Schäfer20th centuryKurt Plötner20th centuryMarshall Nirenberg20th centuryMichael Nehls20th centuryMichael Ristow20th centuryNikolay Artemov20th centuryPeter Mansfield20th centuryRaymond Damadian20th centuryRobert Edwards20th centurySamuel Mitja Rapoport20th centurySevero Ochoa20th centurySigmund Rascher20th centuryThomas J. King Jr.20th centuryTu Youyou20th centuryVasily Krylov20th centurySources1. Physiology (Wikipedia)Wikipedialead paragraph, etymologyQuote, lead paragraph, etymologyPhysiology (; from Ancient Greek φύσις (phúsis) 'nature, origin' and -λογία (-logía) 'study of') is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.