| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1939 |
| Number: | 22 - 0 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Walter R Hess |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1881 |
| Year, Death: | 1973 |
| Profession: | prof physiology |
| University: | University of Zurich |
| City: | Zurich |
| Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949 | |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Louis E Lapicque |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1866 |
| Year, Death: | 1952 |
| Profession: | prof physiology |
| University: | Sorbonne |
| City: | Paris |
| Country: | FRANCE (FR) |
| Nominee 3: |
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| Name: | Corneille J Heymans |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1892 |
| Year, Death: | 1968 |
| Profession: | prof pharmacology |
| University: | Ghent University |
| City: | Ghent |
| Country: | BELGIUM (BE) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1938 | |
| Motivation: | Hess: Work on the physiology of the brain stem, the regulation of sleep, respiration and circulation. Lapicque: Work on chronaxy. Heymans: Work on the regulation of respiration and circulation. |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | A J Vandevelde |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | prof dietetics |
| University: | Ghent University |
| City: | Ghent |
| Country: | BELGIUM (BE) |