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Corneille Heymans
Belgian physiologist (1892-1968).
Life and work
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Belgian physiologist (1892-1968).
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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Achievements and distinctions
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Belgian physiologist (1892-1968).
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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honorary doctorate of the University of Montpellier
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doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
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doctor honoris causa from the University of Alger
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Schmiedeberg Badge
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honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux
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honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse
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honorary doctor of the Marie and Louis Pasteur University
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Royal Order of the Polar Star
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Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre
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Knight Commander of the Order of St. Sylvester
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Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold
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honorary doctor of the University of Utrecht
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honorary doctor of the University of Turin
Career and education
Employers and institutions
University College London · Ghent University
Memberships
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences · Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities · French Academy of Sciences · Pontifical Academy of Sciences · Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL · Académie Nationale de Médecine · Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium · American Philosophical Society
Education
Ghent University · Sint-Barbaracollege
Fields of work
physiology
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