William Harvey, a famous English physiologist and physician, was born in the town of Folkestone, Kent, on April 1, 1578. After graduating from the King's School in Canterbury in 1588-1593, Harvey entered Cambridge University to study literature and medicine and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1597. In April 1602, Harvey received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Padua. After returning to London, he received his doctorate in medicine from Cambridge University. In 1604, Harvey was elected as an alternate member of the Royal College of Physicians, and in 1607, he became a full member, and in 1609, on the recommendation of the king and the president of the Royal College of Physicians, he obtained the position of physician. In August 1615, Harvey was chosen to give the Rumley Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians. theory about the circulation of the blood. In 1618, Harvey was appointed royal physician, and in 1640, when the English bourgeois revolution broke out, he lived in exile with the royal family for three years, which gave him the opportunity to study and exchange with scholars from various countries, and to observe and dissect animals growing everywhere, which enriched his field of knowledge.
On June 3, 1657, Harvey died of a stroke. He wrote a lot of books during his life, the most representative ones being "The Theory of the Movement of the Heart and Blood" and "Animal Reproduction", which made him a great man in the history of modern medicine and physiology. Marx gave Harvey a high evaluation: he finally "established physiology (human physiology animal physiology) as a science."