Eric O. Feigl, Ph.D.

Eric Feigl was born in Iowa City, Iowa and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the son of a famous logical positivist philosopher of science, Herbert Feigl of the Vienna Circle. Eric graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School and interned at Philadelphia General Hospital. He had postdoctoral training at: the University of Pennsylvania (with Lyle Peterson) , the University of Gothenburg, Sweden (with Bjorn Folkow) , and the National Heart Institute (with Donald Fry). Initially he was an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and now is a professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Feigl’s honors include the Katz Prize from the American Heart Association, the Outstanding Research Award of the International Society for Heart Research, the Wiggers Award, and the Berne Award of the American Physiological Society.