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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1938

"for the discovery of the role played by the sinus and aortic mechanisms in the regulation of respiration"
Corneille Jean François Heymans
Corneille Jean François Heymans
Belgium
Ghent University
Ghent, Belgium
b. 1892
d. 1968
 
 
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