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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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- Born
- 1892
- Died
- 1968
- Works
- 11
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5 total works indexed
- 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 11,461x
- BiNGO: a Cytoscape plugin to assess overrepresentation of Gene Ontology categories in Biological Networks
· 2005 · cited 3,555x
- Current state of knowledge on aetiology, diagnosis, management, and therapy of myocarditis: a position statement of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases
· 2013 · cited 2,895x
- How to diagnose diastolic heart failure: a consensus statement on the diagnosis of heart failure with normal left ventricular ejection fraction by the Heart Failure and Echocardiography Associations of the European Society of Cardiology
· 2007
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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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1892 births1968 deathsAcademics of University College LondonAcademic staff of Ghent UniversityBelgian Nobel laureatesBelgian physiologistsGhent University alumniMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyMembers of the French Academy of SciencesMembers of the Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesNobel laureates in Physiology or MedicineScientists from Ghent