Corneille Heymans, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Corneille Heymans

Belgian physiologist

Date of Birth: 28-Mar-1892

Place of Birth: Ghent, Belgium

Date of Death: 18-Jul-1968

Profession: physician, university teacher, physiologist, pharmacologist, toxicologist

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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.