5 lives in this collection worked in physiology, from 1737 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: chemistry, thermodynamics. All fields
Bologna anatomist and physician whose frog experiments revealed animal electricity, founded electrophysiology and set Volta on the path to the pile.
anatomy, physiology, animal electricity
Founder of quantitative chemistry who established the conservation of mass, the oxygen theory of combustion and the modern nomenclature, and with Laplace made calorimetry precise.
chemistry, calorimetry, physiology
Physician turned chemist who made platinum malleable, discovered palladium and rhodium, first saw the dark lines of the solar spectrum, and invented the camera lucida and reflecting goniometer.
chemistry, metallurgy, optics
Heilbronn physician who in 1842 first published the conservation of energy as a universal principle and computed the mechanical equivalent of heat from gas data.
thermodynamics, physiology, medicine
Physician and physicist who gave the first general statement of the conservation of energy, measured the speed of the nerve impulse, invented the ophthalmoscope, founded vortex dynamics and introduced free energy.
physics, physiology, thermodynamics