Corneille Heymans
Born	28 March 1892(1892-03-28) Ghent, Flanders
Died	18 July 1968 (aged 76) Knokke, Flanders
Nationality	Belgium
Fields	Physiology
Institutions	Universiteit Gent
Alma mater	Universiteit Gent
Doctoral students	Paul Janssen
Known for	Vascular Presso- and Chemo-Receptors in Respiratory Control (blood pressure)
Notable awards	Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1938)

Corneille Jean François Heymans (March 28, 1892, Ghent, Flanders – July 18, 1968, Knokke, Flanders) was a Flemish physiologist. He studied at the prestigious Jesuit College of Sainte Barbe after which he proceeded to the University of Ghent. Heymans also worked with C. F. Higgins at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.^[1] He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1938 for showing how blood pressure and oxygen content of the blood are measured by the body and transmitted to the brain. He succeeded his father, Jean-François Heymans, at the Ghent University as a professor of pharmacology.

Heymans was married to Berthe May, an ophthalmologist. in 1929 and had four children. He died in Knokke from a stroke.

[edit] Honours and awards

• Heymans (crater) on the Moon
• Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1938)

[edit] References

• Karl Grandin, ed. (1938). "Corneille Heymans Biography". Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Foundation. http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1938/heymans-bio.html. Retrieved 2008-07-24. 

[edit] External links

• Corneille Heymans, (1892 - 1968), Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology and Medicine 1938
• "Corneille Heymans". The Notable Names Database. 2008. http://www.nndb.com/people/699/000128315/. Retrieved 2008-07-24. 

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