The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1939
Awarded on: 1939-10-26
"for the discovery of the role played by the sinus and aortic mechanisms in the regulation of respiration"
Affiliations:
- Ghent University – Ghent, Belgium
Corneille Jean François Heymans
Born: 1892-03-28 in Ghent, Belgium
Gender: male
Field: Belgian physiologist and Nobel laureate (1892–1968)
Biography
Corneille Jean François Heymans 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.