Corneille Heymans and Carotid Body.

Corneille Heymans (1892-1968) was born in 1892 in Ghent, Belgium. Heymans received his doctor's degree in 1920 from the University of Ghent. He studied physiology in Paris, Lausanne, Vienna, and London under EH Starling and in the United States after graduation. He took up a lectureship in pharmacodynamics at the University of Ghent (1922) and was promoted to professor of pharmacology (1930).