Corneille Heymans
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[[Image: |300px| ]]Corneille Heymans
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| Data 2: | March 28 1892 |
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Dr. Corneille Jean François Heymans (March 28 1892 – July 18 1968) was a Belgian physiologist.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1938 for showing how blood pressure and oxygen content of the blood are measured by the body and transmitted to the brain.
He succeeded his father, Jean-François Heymans, at the Ghent University as a professor of pharmacology.
Heymans married Dr. Berthe May in 1929 and had four children.In 1939 he was diagnosed with chlamydia which was the end to his days in the field of science.
See also
- Heymans (crater)
- Paul Janssen (a famous student)
External links
- Corneille Heymans, (1892 - 1968), Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology and Medicine 1938
- Nobel Foundation Biography
Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine |
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Johannes Fibiger (1926) · Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1927) · Charles Nicolle (1928) · Christiaan Eijkman / Frederick Hopkins (1929) · Karl Landsteiner (1930) · Otto Warburg (1931) · Charles Sherrington / Edgar Adrian (1932) · Thomas Morgan (1933) · George Whipple / George Minot / William Murphy (1934) · Hans Spemann (1935) · Henry Dale / Otto Loewi (1936) · Albert Szent-Györgyi (1937) · Corneille Heymans (1938) · Gerhard Domagk (1939) · Henrik Dam / Edward Doisy (1943) · Joseph Erlanger / Herbert Gasser (1944) · Alexander Fleming / Ernst Chain / Howard Florey (1945) · Hermann Muller (1946) · Carl Cori / Gerty Cori / Bernardo Houssay (1947) · Paul Müller (1948) · Walter Hess / Egas Moniz (1949) · Edward Kendall / Tadeusz Reichstein / Philip Hench (1950) |
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