| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1939 | 
| Number: | 25 - 0 | 
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| Nominee: 
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| Name: | Corneille J Heymans | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1892 | 
| Year, Death: | 1968 | 
| Profession: | prof pharmacology | 
| University: | Ghent University | 
| City: | Ghent | 
| Country: | BELGIUM (BE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1938 | 
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| Motivation: | Work on the chemoreceptors in the range of the depressor and sinus nerves and their significance for the physiology and pharmacology of the regulation of respiration and circulation. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Frans  Daels | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Profession: | prof obstetrics | 
| University: | Ghent University | 
| City: | Ghent | 
| Country: | BELGIUM (BE) | 
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