Physiology or Medicine
Corneille Heymans – Biographical
Biographical
Corneille Jean François Heymans was born in Ghent, Belgium, on March 28, 1892. His father was J. F. Heymans, formerly Professor of Pharmacology and Rector of the University of Ghent, who founded the J. F. Heymans Institute of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the same University. Corneille received his secondary education at the St. Lievenscollege (Ghent),…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
The following account of Heymans’s work is by Professor G. Liljestrand, member of the Staff of Professors of the For over a century now it has been known that respiration in vertebrates including man is regulated from a small area in the medulla, known as the respiratory centre. From this centre nervous impulses of variable…
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Press release
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1973 jointly to Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen for their discoveries concerning “organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns”. During the first decades of this century research concerning animal behaviour was on its way to be…
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010is awarded toRobert G. Edwards”for the development of in vitro fertilization” The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 Robert Edwards is awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for the development of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) therapy. His achievements have made it possible to treat infertility, a medical…
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