The Professorship of Physiology, also known as the Chair of Physiology (1883), is a

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. In 2006, the Department of Physiology was merged with the Department of Anatomy to form the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience where the chair is now based.

List of Professors of Physiology

* Michael Foster (1883–1903) * John Newport Langley (1903–1925) *

Joseph Barcroft Sir Joseph Barcroft (26 July 1872 – 21 March 1947) was a British physiologist best known for his studies of the oxygenation of blood. Life Born in Newry, County Down into a Quaker family, he was the son of Henry Barcroft DL and Anna Richar ...

(1926–1937) * Edgar Adrian (1937–1951) *

Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews Sir Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews, (14 June 1906 – 23 July 1986) was Professor of Physiology, Cambridge University 1952–1973, emeritus professor thereafter and Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Matthews was educated at Clifton College ...

(1952–1973) *

Richard Darwin Keynes Richard Darwin Keynes, CBE, FRS ( ; 14 August 1919 – 12 June 2010) was a British physiologist. The great-grandson of Charles Darwin, Keynes edited his great-grandfather's accounts and illustrations of Darwin's famous voyage aboard into ''T ...

(1973–1987) * Ian Michael Glynn (1986–1995) * Roger Christopher Thomas (1996–2006) * Ole Paulsen (2010–present) {{DEFAULTSORT:Professor of Physiology, *, Cambridge

Physiology Physiology (; ) is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system. As a sub-discipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ systems, individual organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical ...

Faculty of Biology, University of Cambridge Physiology, *, Cambridge