Awards & Winners

Walter Rudolf Hess

Date of Birth 17-March-1881
Place of Birth Frauenfeld
(Canton of Thurgau, Switzerland, Frauenfeld District)
Nationality Switzerland
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.

Awards by Walter Rudolf Hess

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1949


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs)