Jean-François Heymans

He received his education at the University of Leuven, where he earned doctorates in natural sciences (1884) and medicine (1887).

Afterwards, he travelled to Berlin, where he spent three years as an assistant to Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond.

[1] In 1891 he was named professor of pharmacodynamics and general therapeutics at the University of Ghent.

[3] His research included studies of myelinated and non-myelinated nerve fiber, the nervous system of the amphioxus, nerve endings of leeches, the influence of temperature on muscle contraction and on the detoxification of cyanide derivatives, to name a few.

[2] With German neurophysiologist Johannes Gad, he published a textbook on physiology titled Kurzes Lehrbuch der Physiologie des Menschen.