biography
| name: |
Heymans, Corneille Jean François
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pronunciation:
[hiymahns]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1892–1968)
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| biography:
| Physiologist, born in Ghent, NW Belgium. He worked at the University of Ghent (1920–68), becoming professor of pharmacology there in 1930. He discovered the regulatory effect on respiration of certain sensory organs, and how blood pressure and its oxygen content are monitored. He was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. |
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