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Walter Rudolf Hess

Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973)

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Born
March 17, 1881
Died
August 12, 1973
Zodiac sign
Pisces
Birth year
1881

About Walter Rudolf Hess

Walter Rudolf Hess was a Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for mapping the areas of the brain involved in the control of internal organs. He shared the prize with Egas Moniz. Walter Rudolf Hess (17 March 1881 – 12 August 1973) was a Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for mapping the areas of the brain involved in the control of internal organs. In 1916, Gaule retired and Hess first became interim director of the Department of the Physiological Institute at the University of Zurich. This research won him the Nobel prize in Physiology and Medicine 1949.

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Walter Rudolf Hess timeline

  1. Walter Rudolf Hess (17 March 1881 – 12 August 1973) was a Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for mapping the areas of the brain involved in the control of internal organs.
  2. In 1916, Gaule retired and Hess first became interim director of the Department of the Physiological Institute at the University of Zurich.
  3. This research won him the Nobel prize in Physiology and Medicine 1949.

The world when Walter Rudolf Hess was born

Walter Rudolf Hess was born in 1881. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlinePresident Garfield assassinated
  • Technology milestoneFirst electric power plant (Godalming, England)
  • World population~1.41B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderJames A. Garfield / Chester A. Arthur
  • U.S. population51.0M

1881 versus 2026

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Measure18812026
Population51.0M341 million

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