How to Use physiologist in a Sentence

physiologist

noun
  • In 1760, the renowned physiologist Daniel Bernoulli attempted to put the matter to rest.
    James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Plant physiologists at the Phoenix garden are studying how much heat cacti can take.
    Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • Turner may also have been a step ahead of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov.
    Alla Katsnelson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
  • On top of that, your day to day lifestyle impacts your total weight, says Heather Hamilton, an exercise physiologist and co-founder of Barpath Fitness.
    Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Tahli Gill, one half of its team, plans to be a primary school teacher, and her teammate Dean Hewitt is an exercise physiologist.
    New York Times, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Trained as an animal physiologist, Secker learned technical skills by pure chance, building PCs for his friends to play faster video games.
    Neal Taparia, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • Heather Hamilton is an exercise physiologist and co-founder of Barpath Fitness.
    Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Kaare Rodahl, a Norwegian physician, physiologist, and member of the original research team, wrote of the first exposure to the island.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2023
  • When Kafka wrote these lines, the work of Sigmund Exner, a Viennese physiologist who studied insect vision, was still well-known.
    László F. Földényi, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • Once upon a time, a data guy, a software guy, and an environmental physiologist met on a hut-to-hut ski traverse of Oregon’s Three Sisters Wilderness.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Jay, the physiologist, noted that the Australian Open has canceled matches when the wet bulb globe temperature exceeded 32.5C.
    Yutao Chen, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022
  • For a century, physiologists have puzzled over how the body coordinates the switch between storage and release.
    Emily Underwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2024
  • In 1893, Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven refined the capillary electrometer to show the voltage graph of a heartbeat cycle and the cycle’s five distinct deflections.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 Jan. 2021
  • Humphrey remembers with special vividness a day when his physiologist grandfather acquired a sheep’s head from a local butcher and taught an anatomy lesson at the kitchen table.
    Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023
  • But there’s another theory, put forward by a sports physiologist named Tim Noakes.
    Krista Stevens, Longreads, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Tom Kimmerer, a plant physiologist who taught at the University of Kentucky, has tracked indoor farming alongside his research into the growth of plants both outdoors and inside.
    Melina Walling, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
  • But Amy Sparks, a reproductive physiologist at the University of Iowa, who was not involved in the research, cautioned that sperm counts are falling but not enough to affect the human population.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Chris Minson, a physiologist at the University of Oregon, found that training to withstand heat benefits athletes even in cool-weather races.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Ross Tucker, a sports physiologist who consults with World Rugby, has called Thomas the perfect symbol for what can happen if sports allow transgender women to compete with no restrictions.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 June 2022
  • While some big game developers and publishers have psychologists on staff who design games with the kind of loops that encourage compulsive behavior, 2DogsGames has a physiologist on staff to make sure their game doesn’t.
    WIRED, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Geisel, an exercise physiologist, is the director of performance and wellness services at HSS.
    Sejal Parekh, ABC News, 31 July 2024
  • Stearns is an exercise physiologist and a seasoned runner.
    Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Geoffrey Burns is a sport physiologist at the University of Michigan and an elite ultrarunner.
    Outside Online, 24 July 2024
  • Athletes who spend three to four weeks at altitude can expect a roughly 4% to 5% increase in red blood cells, said Dan Bergland, a sport physiologist with Hypo2, a sport management company that organizes altitude training in Flagstaff.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Lepers is a French physiologist who specializes in exercise and aging.
    Amby Burfoot, Outside Online, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Engineers and physiologists designed every element of the event; the Kenyan marathoner Eliud Kipchoge ran a private race at an ideal temperature in advanced clothing and with other runners in front of him to cut wind resistance.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2024
  • After all, the most famous and influential study on drafting in runners, published back in 1970 by pioneering Everest physiologist Griffith Pugh, was based on a wind-tunnel experiment with a grand total of one subject.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The term, first coined in 1929 by American physiologist Walter Cannon, was meant to describe the regulation of our internal environment through feedback and feedforward systems.
    Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Roger Seymour is a cardiovascular physiologist at the University of Adelaide in Australia who researches blood flow to the brain as an indication of species intelligence.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2021
  • This achievement had held an almost mythical status—existing, as some physiologists projected, at the edge of a human body’s capabilities.
    Popular Science, 24 Aug. 2023

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