Corneille Heymans

Corneille Heymans (born March 28, 1892, Ghent, Belg.—died July 18, 1968, Knokke) was a Belgian physiologist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1938 for his discovery of the regulatory effect on respiration of sensory organs associated with the carotid artery in the neck and with the aortic arch leading from the heart. After taking his M.D. degree at the University of Ghent in 1920, Heymans studied physiology in Paris, Lausanne, Vienna,...