Well, that was the question that 19th century French physiologist Raphael Dubois, asked about this bioluminescent clam.

Jan Baptist van Helmont ( 12 January 1580 30 December 1644) was a Flemish chemist, physiologist, and physician.

Sir Henry Hallett Dale, OM, GBE, PRS (9 June 1875 23 July 1968) was an English pharmacologist and physiologist.

History Both the term and the specific exercise method were developed by Dr. Kenneth Cooper, M.D., an exercise physiologist, and Col. Pauline Potts, a physical therapist, both of the United States Air Force.

Walter Rudolf Hess (March 17, 1881 August 12, 1973) was a Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for mapping the areas of the brain involved in the control of internal organs.

Herbert Spencer Gasser (July 5, 1888 May 11, 1963) was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, awarded jointly with Joseph Erlanger.