Corneille Jean François Heymans 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. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1938, announced October 26, 1939. Corneille Heymans, “for the discovery of the role played by the sinus and aortic mechanisms in the regulation of respiration”. Corneille Heymans: born 1892, Ghent, Belgium. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).