Corneille Heymans - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1938
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Corneille Heymans

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1938
for the discovery of the role played by the sinus and aortic mechanisms in the regulation of respiration
Citizenship
Belgium Belgium
Languages
French
date of birth
3/28/1892
place of birth
Ghent
date of death
7/18/1968
place of death
Knokke-Heist
Lived
76 years
member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1962
  • Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
    • start time: 1950
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • French Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium
  • Académie Nationale de Médecine
  • Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
occupation
  • physician
  • pharmacologist
  • university teacher
  • physiologist
  • toxicologist
educated at
  • Ghent University
  • Sint-Barbaracollege
field of work
  • physiology
employer
  • University College London
  • Ghent University
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