Walter Rudolf Hess
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1949for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organsTogether with: António Egas Moniz
- Citizenship
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Switzerland - Languages
- German
- date of birth
- 3/17/1881
- place of birth
- Frauenfeld
- date of death
- 8/12/1973
- place of death
- Muralto
- Lived
- 92 years
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- field of work
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- human physiology
- surgery
- neuroscience
- ophthalmology
- member of
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- Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- Thurgovia
- Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- occupation
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- surgeon
- physiologist
- university teacher
- art historian
- neuroscientist
- ophthalmologist
- physician
- employer
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- University of Zurich
- doctoral student
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- Konrad Akert
- educated at
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- University of Zurich