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Corneille Heymans

1892-03-28 – 1968-07-18

Corneille Jean François Heymans, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1938Credit: Unknown author

Life & Legacy

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.

Occupation & Career

physician, university teacher, pharmacologist, physiologist, toxicologist

Education

Ghent University; Sint-Barbaracollege

Accomplishments, Inventions & Publications

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; honorary doctorate of the University of Montpellier; doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris; doctor honoris causa from the University of Alger; Schmiedeberg Badge; honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux; honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse; honorary doctor of the Marie and Louis Pasteur University; Royal Order of the Polar Star; Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre; Knight Commander of the Order of St. Sylvester; Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold; honorary doctor of the University of Utrecht; honorary doctor of the University of Turin; Honorary doctors of Ghent University

Legacy Highlights

Honors & Awards

doctor honoris causa from the University of Alger · doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris · Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre · Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold · honorary doctor of the Marie and Louis Pasteur University · honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux · honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse · honorary doctor of the University of Turin · honorary doctor of the University of Utrecht · honorary doctorate of the University of Montpellier · Honorary doctors of Ghent University · Knight Commander of the Order of St. Sylvester · Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine · Royal Order of the Polar Star · Schmiedeberg Badge

Employer

Ghent University · University College London

Organizations & Memberships

Académie Nationale de Médecine · Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL · American Philosophical Society · French Academy of Sciences · Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities · Pontifical Academy of Sciences · Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium · Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences