| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1931 | 
| Number: | 42 - 0 | 
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| Nominee: 
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| Name: | Jean François  Heymans | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Profession: | prof emer pharmacology | 
| University: | Ghent University | 
| City: | Ghent | 
| Country: | BELGIUM (BE) | 
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| Motivation: | Work on the physiology and pharmacology of respiration and blood circulation (see comment). | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Alexandre  Besredka | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1870 | 
| Year, Death: | 1940 | 
| Profession: | prof hygiene | 
| University: | Ghent University | 
| City: | Ghent | 
| Country: | BELGIUM (BE) | 
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| Comments: | Much of the work was done in collaboration with Heyman´s son, Corneille J.F. Heymans (NP med 1938). | 
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