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Corneille Heymans
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Corneille Heymans was a Belgian scientist who studied how the body's nervous system controls functions like breathing and blood pressure. His discoveries about sensory nerves in the heart and blood vessels earned him international recognition and contributed significantly to our understanding of how the body maintains vital functions.
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It sits within the topics 1892 births, 1968 deaths and Academics of University College London.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1892
- Died
- 1968
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Les chémo-recepteurs du sinus carotidien
- Quelques progrès en médecine aux Etats-Unis, 1940-1946
- Le spasme vasculaire
- Le tonus vasculaire
- La sensibilit©♭ r©♭flexog©·ne des vaisseaux aux excitants chimiques
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1938
“for the discovery of the role played by the sinus and aortic mechanisms in the regulation of respiration”
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Place of birth
- Ghent
- Place of death
- Knokke-Heist
- Father
- Jean-François Heymans
- Occupation
- toxicologist
- Educated at
- Sint-Barbaracollege
- Employer
- Ghent University
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Field of work
- physiology
- Image
- Corneille Heymans nobel.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1892-00-00
- date of death
- 1968-00-00
- Commons category
- Corneille Heymans
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- place of burial
- Campo Santo
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- birth name
- Corneille Jean François Heymans
- P8168
- Rosa Caracciolo
- interested in
- physiology
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Encyclopedic overview
Corneille Jean François Heymans (28 March 1892 – 18 July 1968) was a Belgian physiologist. He studied at the Jesuit College of Saint Barbara and then at Ghent University, where he obtained a doctor's degree in 1920.
Heymans won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1938 for showing how blood pressure and the oxygen content of the blood are measured by the body and transmitted to the brain.
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