A Swiss neurophysiologist, Walter Rudolf Hess (1881-1973) won the 1949 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (with Antonio Egas Moniz) for discovering the role played by certain parts of the brain in...
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Walter Rudolf Hess was born in the Swiss town of Frauenfeld to Clemens and Gertrud (Fischer Saxon) Hess on March 17, 1881. He inherited a strong interest in science from his father, a physics teacher....
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Walter Rudolf Hess was born in the Swiss town of Frauenfeld to Clemens and Gertrud (Fischer Saxon) Hess on March 17, 1881. He inherited a strong interest in science from his father, a physics teacher....
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Walter Rudolf Hess won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1949, for his work in analyzing the function of the diencephalon, part of the interbrain, and its role in coordinating the body's i...
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