Jan Frans Heymans 1859-1932 - Ghent - Belgium

Jean-François Heymans, also Jan Frans Heymans (25 December 1859, Gooik – 10 April 1932, Middelkerke) was a Belgian pharmacologist and

physiologist Physiology (; ) is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system. As a sub-discipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ systems, individual organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical a ...

. He was the father of physiologist

Corneille Jean François Heymans Corneille Jean François Heymans (28 March 1892 – 18 July 1968) 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. Heymans won the Nobel Pri ...

. He received his education at the University of Leuven, where he earned doctorates in natural sciences (1884) and medicine (1887). From 1884 to 1887 he worked as a préparateur in the laboratory of physiology under Ernest Masoin. Afterwards, he travelled to Berlin, where he spent three years as an assistant to

Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond Emil Heinrich du Bois-Reymond (7 November 181826 December 1896) was a German physician and physiologist, the co-discoverer of nerve action potential, and the developer of experimental electrophysiology. Life Du Bois-Reymond was born in Berlin a ...

. In 1891 he was named professor of pharmacodynamics and general therapeutics at the University of Ghent. Here, he founded a laboratory for experimental pharmacology and therapeutics.Zeno.org
Pagel: Biographical Dictionary outstanding physicians of the nineteenth century. Berlin, Vienna 1901, Sp. 736th. He was rector of the university in 1923-1924. His research included studies of myelinated and non-myelinated

nerve fiber An axon (from Greek ἄξων ''áxōn'', axis), or nerve fiber (or nerve fibre: see spelling differences), is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, in vertebrates, that typically conducts electrical impulses known as action po ...

, the nervous system of the amphioxus, nerve endings of

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es, the influence of temperature on muscle contraction and on the detoxification of

cyanide Cyanide is a naturally occurring, rapidly acting, toxic chemical that can exist in many different forms. In chemistry, a cyanide () is a chemical compound that contains a functional group. This group, known as the cyano group, consists of a ...

derivatives, to name a few. With German neurophysiologist

Johannes Gad Johannes Wilhelm Gad (30 June 1842 – 1926) was a German neurophysiologist who was a native of Posen. He was father-in-law to psychiatrist Oskar Kohnstamm (1871-1917). Life He was an assistant to Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818–1896) at the ...

, he published a textbook on physiology titled ''Kurzes Lehrbuch der Physiologie des Menschen''. Also, he translated into French, Ewald and Munk's manual of dietetics as ''Alimentation de l'homme normal et de l'homme malade, traité de diététique a l'usage des médecins''. In 1895, with French physiologist

Eugène Gley Marcel Eugène Émile Gley (; 18 January 1857 – 24 October 1930) was a French physiologist and endocrinologist born in Épinal, Vosges. He studied physiology with Henri-Étienne Beaunis at the medical school in Nancy, and afterwards worked as ...

, he founded the journal ''Archives Internationales de Pharmacodynamie et de Thérapie''.Encyclopedia of Biology
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Heymans, Jean-Francois 1859 births 1932 deaths People from Flemish Brabant Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968) alumni Academic staff of Ghent University Rectors of Ghent University Belgian physiologists Belgian pharmacologists