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  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. He shared the prize with Egas Moniz.

    • 17 March 1881, Frauenfeld, Thurgau, Switzerland
  2. Mar 13, 2024 · Walter Rudolf Hess (born March 17, 1881, Frauenfeld, Switz.—died Aug. 12, 1973, Ascona) was a Swiss physiologist, who received (with António Egas Moniz) the 1949 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering the role played by certain parts of the brain in determining and coordinating the functions of internal organs.

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  4. Nov 6, 2018 · Rudolf Hess was a top Nazi official and close associate of Adolph Hitler who flew to Scotland in 1941, parachuting to the ground, and claiming to be delivering a peace proposal from Germany. He was captured by the British and tried at Nuremberg, where he was convicted of high treason and sentenced to life in prison. He died in 1987, but his grave became a pilgrimage site for Nazis.

  5. May 23, 2018 · Walter Rudolf Hess was a Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for his work on the brain and the blood. He studied the autonomic nervous system, the ophthalmology, the oculomotor system, and the blood viscosity. He also developed a device to measure blood viscosity and resistance.

  6. Walter Richard Rudolf Hess (1894-1987) was Deputy Reichsführer for Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1941. He lived longer than any other major war criminal. Rudolf Hess was born April 26, 1894, in Cairo, Egypt, eldest son of Fritz H. Hess and Klara Münch. He was educated in a German school at Alexandria and also in Germany at Godesberg am Rhein.

  7. "Walter Rudolf Hess" published on by null. (1881–1973) Swiss neurophysiologistThe son of a physics teacher from Frauenfel in Switzerland, Hess was educated at the universities of Lausanne, Bern, Berlin, Kiel, and Zurich where he obtained his MD in 1906.

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