Corneille Heymans was a Belgian physiologist who 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.
Cornelius Joannes Franciscus Heymans was born on March 28, 1892 in Ghent. He was a son of Joannes Franciscus Heymans and Maria Henrica Augusta Dorothea Henning.[1]
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