Walter Rudolf Hess

Walter Rudolf Hess

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949

University of Zurich

“for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs”

Walter Rudolf Hess was a Swiss physician and physiologist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs.

Field
Biology · Neuroscience
Lifespan
1881–1973