Background
Corneille Jean François Heymans was born on March 28, 1892, in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium. He was the son of a professor of pharmacology at the University of Ghent.
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Pharmacologist physiologist professor
Corneille Jean François Heymans was born on March 28, 1892, in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium. He was the son of a professor of pharmacology at the University of Ghent.
He studied at the Jesuit College of Saint Barbara and then at Ghent University, where he obtained a doctor's degree in 1920.
He later studied and worked in various physiological laboratories in Belgium and abroad, including Cleveland, Paris, Vienna, and London.
After studies, he worked in various physiological laboratories in Belgium and abroad, including Cleveland, Paris, Vienna, and London. In 1925 he succeeded his father as professor of pharmacology at the University of Ghent and became director of the Institute of Pharmacodynamics and Therapeutics, which had been founded by his father. Most of Heyman's research was in the field of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, and especially in the head, heart, lungs, and the carotid sinus with respect to the regulation of respiration and blood pressure. In these studies, he learned of the role played by the vasosensitive zones of the carotid sinus and aorta.
Heymans married Berthe May in 1929 and had five children.
