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{{short description|Indian medical scientist (1925–2004)}}
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|death_place = [[Delhi]], India
|fields = [[Physiology]]
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'''Autar Singh Paintal''' {{postnominals|FRS}} (24 September 1925 – 21 December 2004)<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Iggo | first1 = A. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2006.0018 | title = Autar Singh Paintal. 24 September 1925 -- 21 December 2004: Elected FRS 1981 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 52 | pages = 251–262 | year = 2006 | pmid =18543474| doi-access = free }}</ref> was a [[medicine|medical]] [[scientist]] who made pioneering discoveries in the area of [[neuroscience]]s and [[respiratory medicine|respiratory sciences]]. He is the first Indian Physiologist to become the Fellow of the Royal Society, London.

He was a merit student and did his post graduation in [[physiology]] from [[King George Medical College]], [[Lucknow]].

Paintal completed his [[Ph.D|PhD]] under the supervision of [[David Whitteridge]] at the [[University of Edinburgh]].{{cn|date=July 2019}}

His major contribution to the world of science is the development of a single-fiber technique for recording afferent impulses from individual sensory receptors. Paintal discovered several sensory receptors including atrial B receptors, pulmonary J-receptors, ventricular pressure receptors, stomach stretch receptors, and muscle pain receptors. They have set the beginning of new era in physiological understanding.

Paintal returned to India in 1953 and joined [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences]], [[New Delhi]]. He later became Director of the Vallabhai Patel Chest Institute. He was also the first Principal of [[University College of Medical Sciences]], Delhi.<ref>{{cite book|last=Edited by DP Burma|first=Maharani Chakravorty|title=From Physiology and Chemistry to Biochemistry|year=2011|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=9788131732205|page=163|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4CaQ3-x3LXMC}}</ref> Paintal subsequently was elevated to Director General of the [[Indian Council of Medical Research]] and he was also the founder president of Society of Scientific Values.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology|year=2005|volume=49|issue=2|pages=247–250|pmid=16247944|title=Autar Singh Paintal (1925-2004).}}</ref>

Paintal had 3 children by his first wife Iris Paintal. His second daughter [[Priti Paintal]] is a music composer in the UK. His second wife [[Ashima Anand|Dr Ashima Anand-Paintal]] is also a scientist.{{cn|date=July 2019}}

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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060712125816/http://www.hindu.com/seta/2006/01/19/stories/2006011900181500.htm A.S. Paintal — a celebrated physiologist ]
* {{cite web | title=Autar Singh Paintal, MBBS, MD, PhD (1925-2004) | publisher=[[American Physiological Society]] |website=Obituaries | url=http://www.the-aps.org/membership/obituaries/autar_singh_paintal.htm | access-date=2006-09-01 |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927031700/http://www.the-aps.org/membership/obituaries/autar_singh_paintal.htm }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060128104901/http://www.vpci.org.in/upload/Journals/pic132.pdf Obituary from Indian Journal of Chest Diseases and Allied Sciences]

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