physiologists

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physiologists

William Harvey

a life in circulation
2013
A biography of English physician William Harvey whose theory of blood circulation challenged centuries of anatomical and physiological orthodoxy.

Ivan Pavlov

exploring the mysteries of behavior
2006
Presents a brief biography of Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov that chronicles his life and work on human behavior and his 1904 Nobel Prize for physiology.

Ivan Pavlov

exploring the animal machine
2000
A biography of the Russian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1904 for research on the digestive system and is perhaps best known for his research on dogs.

William Harvey and the mechanics of the heart

2003
A biography of the eminent seventeenth century physician and scientist who discovered the functions of the heart, arteries, and veins in the circulation of blood.

William Harvey

discoverer of how blood circulates
2008
Examines the life of William Harvey, a sixteenth-century physician who discovered the heart is actually a pump that circulates blood thoughout the body.

Friedrich Miescher and the story of nucleic acid

2006
Discusses Swiss biologist Friedrich Miescher's discovery of nucleic acid in the late 1800s, examines related breakthroughs in the field, and looks at how Miescher's workled to the DNA technology being used in the twenty-first century.

William Harvey

discoverer of how blood circulates
1994
Examines the life of William Harvey, a sixteenth-century physician who discovered the heart is actually a pump that circulates blood thoughout the body.
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