Corneille Heymans practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Corneille Heymans as Belgian physiologist (1892-1968).
Corneille Heymans was born at Ghent in 1892. His recorded nationality is Belgium. He trained at Ghent University and Sint-Barbaracollege.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
His posts were held at University College London and Ghent University.
The recorded fields of work are physiology.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
Recognition followed: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1938).
That the work was done from Belgium matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Corneille Heymans died in 1968, aged 76. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1938
- Held posts at University College London and Ghent University
- Fields: physiology
