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Nobel Prize laureates
Corneille Heymans
1938 Physiology or Medicine
* 1892 in Gent, Belgium
+ 1968 in Knokke, Belgium
Corneille Jean François Heymans was a Belgian physiologist.
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.
2018 J. Giesen