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    • The current laureate
    • Past laureates
    • Subsequent Nobel Prize laureates
  • Nomination and selection
    • Nomination 2023 pre-announcenement
  • The award ceremony
    • The award ceremony 2022
    • The award ceremony 2021
    • The award ceremony 2020
    • The award ceremony 2019
    • The award ceremony 2018
    • The award ceremonies of the past
  • Marcel Benoist
    • The founder
    • The legacy
  • Create excellence!
    • “A prize for another 100 years”
    • Tax-related & legal issues
  • Foundation
    • Foundation
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    • Board of Trustees
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Walter R. Hess

Laureate 1931: Walter R. Hess

“[…] for his work on the regulation of blood circulation and breathing, the methodology of localised stimulation, the destruction of subcortical brain areas and sleep. The Foundation Board considered his work of great scientific and practical significance. Based on rigorous scientific methodology and executed with admirable care and diligence, it is an example of exemplary scientific research, which undoubtedly offers great benefits to human life.”

Die Regulationsmechanismen der Zirkulation und der Atmung analytisch scharf dargestellt und mit viel Quellenmaterial belegt zu haben war im Urteil der Berichterstatter das grosse Verdienst der H.’schen Arbeiten. Ebenfalls um das Problem der Regulation und Koordination (vegetatives Nervensystem) ging es ihm bei seinen Forschungen zur Reizmethodik des Hirnstamms, für die er mikroskopische Serienschnitte von Katzenhirnen verwendete. Auf diese Weise konnte er experimentell die Lage des Schlafzentrums im Gehirn nachweisen und die Hypothese untermauern, wonach der Schlaf ein biologisches Phänomen des Regulierungssystems des autonomen Nervensystems darstellt.

Contact

Marcel Benoist Foundation
State Secretariat for Education,
Research and Innovation SERI
Einsteinstrasse 2
CH – 3003 Bern

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