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Walter Rudolf Hess

1881 - 1973

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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. He shared the prize with Egas Moniz. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Rudolf Hess is the 84th most popular physician (up from 88th in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 63rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swiss Physician.

Walter Rudolf Hess was a German scientist who is most famous for his discovery of the law of conservation of energy in the 1920s.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Walter Rudolf Hess ranks 84 out of 726. Before him are Jens Christian Skou, August Krogh, Eugen Bleuler, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, and Cyril of Jerusalem. After him are Hua Tuo, Karl Brandt, Ragnar Granit, Herophilos, Jacques Rogge, and Theodor Morell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Walter Rudolf Hess ranks 33. Before him are Erwin von Witzleben, Asta Nielsen, Irving Langmuir, Alcide De Gasperi, Ettore Bugatti, and L. E. J. Brouwer. After him are Georg von Küchler, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Władysław Sikorski, George Enescu, Maximilian von Weichs, and King Oliver. Among people deceased in 1973, Walter Rudolf Hess ranks 34. Before him are Ragnar Frisch, Pablo Casals, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Selman Waksman, Semyon Budyonny, and Gabriel Marcel. After him are Víctor Jara, Ingeborg Bachmann, Gerard Kuiper, Jacques Maritain, Hans Albert Einstein, and Lon Chaney Jr..

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Walter Rudolf Hess ranks 54 out of 1,015. Before him are Lys Assia (1924), Daniel Bovet (1907), Robert Walser (1878), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), and Ursula Andress (1936). After him are Angelica Kauffman (1741), Richard R. Ernst (1933), Henry Fuseli (1741), Hermann Rorschach (1884), Auguste Piccard (1884), and Michel Mayor (1942).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Walter Rudolf Hess ranks 6. Before him are Paracelsus (1493), Emil Theodor Kocher (1841), Franz Mesmer (1734), Eugen Bleuler (1857), and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926). After him are Alexandre Yersin (1863), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Albrecht von Haller (1708), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672), and Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867).

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