Peter Sterling (born June 28, 1940) is an American anatomist, physiologist and neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
At the age of twenty, while a student at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, he was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for participating in a Freedom Ride.
[5][6] He was set free after paying a fine[4] and/or by mediation by Howard Allen Schneiderman, who recruited him to experimental biology.
[7] Peter Sterling attended New York University Medical School for two years, but voluntarily dropped out in order to study neuroanatomy.
[4] Together with Joseph Eyer, Peter Sterling coined the term allostasis for "stability through change",[9] which is now enjoying growing scientific attention, especially in the context of allostatic load.