Categories: 1892 births | 1968 deaths | Physiologists | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winners
Dr. Corneille Jean François Heymans (March 28, 1892 - July 18, 1968) was a Belgian physiologist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1938 for for showing how blood pressure and oxygen content of the blood are measured by the body and transmitted to the brain.