The Centennial International Congress was organized in Helsinki 1989.
Physiology is one of the cornerstones of the biology and health sciences.
In Finland physiology has had a strong tradition ever since prof. Rober Tigerstedt, close friend of Mr. Alfred Nobel, founder of Nobel Foundation. One Finnish physiologist, prof. Ragnar Granit, inventor of the secrets of color vision and ardent student of sensory organs of muscle, has got the Nobel Prize. At the University of Kuopio the Department of Physiology has permanent jobs for 17 and nine other teaching positions in addition to the professor.