Corneille Jean François Heymans

Corneille Jean François Heymans

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1938

Ghent University

“for the discovery of the role played by the sinus and aortic mechanisms in the regulation of respiration”

Corneille Jean François Heymans was a Belgian physiologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1938 for the discovery of the role played by the sinus and aortic mechanisms in the regulation of respiration.

Field
Biology · Physiology
Lifespan
1892–1968