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William Harvey
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William Harvey
Doctor, Physiologist, Journalist / 1578 - 1657
William Harvey was a 17th-century British physician who became the first to document an understanding of blood circulation. -
Charles H. Best
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Charles H. Best
Academic, Physiologist / 1899 - 1978
Charles H. Best was a physiologist and medical researcher who co-discovered the use of insulin as a treatment for diabetes.
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Francis Crick
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Francis Crick
Biologist, Physiologist / 1916 - 2004
Francis Crick is responsible for discovering, along with James Watson, the double-helix structure of the DNA strand.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Educator, Doctor, Physiologist, Author, Poet / 1809 - 1894
Physician Oliver Wendell Holmes served as dean of Harvard Medical School, but was best known for his poetry and "Breakfast-Table" essays. -
Bernardo Alberto Houssay
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Bernardo Alberto Houssay
Doctor, Physiologist / 1887 - 1971
Bernardo Alberto Houssay was an Argentinian doctor whose research on the role of pituitary hormones regulating blood sugar won him a Nobel Prize.
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Linda B. Buck
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Linda B. Buck
Physiologist / 1947 -
Linda B. Buck is an American scientist and the 2004 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
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