Please answer the following question: Facts:   - death place: knokke , flanders , belgium    - doctoral students: paul janssen    - prizes: nobel prize for physiology or medicine -lrb- 1938 -rrb-    - known for: vascular blood pressure -rrb- presso - and chemo-receptors in respiratory control -lrb-    - work institutions: ghent university    - death date: 18 july 1968    - field: physiology      - birth date: 28 march 1892    - name: corneille heymans    - image size: 200px    - nationality: belgium    - image: corneille heymans nobel.jpg    - birth place: ghent , flanders , belgium    - alma mater: ghent university   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of corneille heymans .
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corneille jean françois heymans -lrb- 28 march 1892 -- 18 july 1968 -rrb- was a belgian physiologist .he studied at the prestigious jesuit college of sainte barbe after which he proceeded to ghent university , where he obtained a doctor 's degree in 1920 .heymans won the nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1938 for showing how blood pressure and the oxygen content of the blood are measured by the body and transmitted to the brain .