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Bio Scientists
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
09/17/2013

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Hippocrates
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Father of medicine, careful observation
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Aristotle
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Father of natural history relationship between structure and function
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Claudis Galenus "Galen"
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First experimental physiologist
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Ibn al-Nafis
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Anatomy of heart and lungs, coronary circulation, ventilation
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Jean-Francois Fernal
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Outlined current knowledge of human health and disease
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Andreas Vesalius
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First modern anatomy textbook
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William Harvey
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Circulation of blood throughout the body by contractions of the heart
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Herman Boerhaave and Albrecht von Haller
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Bodily functions are a combo of chemical and physical processes

-prior to this, either latrochemists or latrophysicists

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Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann
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Cell Theory
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Claude Bernard
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Milieu interieur (internal environment)
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Walter Cannon
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Homeostasis
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Per Scholander
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Comparative physiology (diving mammals and birds)
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C. Ladd Prosser
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Central pattern generators
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Knut Schmidt-Nielson
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Animals in harsh and unusual environments

"The study of how animals work"

an "ecophysiologist"

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George Bartholomew
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Ecological physiology - how do organisms meet the challenges of their environments?
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Peter Hochachka and George Somero
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Biochemical adaptations (adapting to temperature and pressure, low oxygen, meeting the demands of exercise)
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