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Corneille Heymans
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Corneille Heymans

1892 – 1968 · aged 76

Belgian physiologist (1892-1968)

Born
28 Mar 1892 · Ghent
Died
18 Jul 1968 · Knokke-Heist
Part ofBelgium54 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 87 years
  1. 28 Mar 1892BornBorn in Ghent
  2. 1938AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  3. 1953AwardHonorary doctorate of the University of Montpellier
  4. 1959AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Alger
  5. 1959AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
  6. 1962AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux
  7. 1962AwardSchmiedeberg Badge
  8. 1964AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Toulouse
  9. 1967AwardHonorary doctor of the Marie and Louis Pasteur University
  10. 18 Jul 1968DiedDied in Knokke-Heist

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1892 – 1968).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1914 – 1918World War I
  5. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  6. 1917Balfour Declaration
  7. 1917February Revolution
  8. 1917October Revolution
  9. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  10. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  11. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  12. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  13. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  14. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  15. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  16. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1938Munich Agreement
  18. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  19. 1939 – 1945World War II
  20. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  21. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  22. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  23. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  24. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  25. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  26. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  27. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  29. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  30. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  32. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  33. 1956Suez Crisis
  34. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  36. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  38. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  39. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  40. 1968Prague Spring

Biography

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.

Text from the Wikipedia article Corneille Heymans, CC BY-SA 4.0

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