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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Rudolf Hess has received more than 155,154 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Walter Rudolf Hess is the 92nd most popular physician (down from 88th in 2019), the 61st most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 65th 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 92 out of 502Before him are Jonas Salk, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Werner Forssmann, Cornelius Jansen, Friedrich Miescher, and Róbert Bárány. After him are Jang-geum, Corneille Heymans, Stanley Cohen, Ctesias, Otto Loewi, and Qa'a.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Walter Rudolf Hess ranks 35Before him are George Enescu, Natalia Goncharova, Hermann Staudinger, Juan Ramón Jiménez, François Darlan, and Władysław Sikorski. After him are Vincenzo Peruggia, Otto Wille Kuusinen, Carlo Carrà, Asta Nielsen, Theodore von Kármán, and Ivan Ribar. Among people deceased in 1973, Walter Rudolf Hess ranks 37Before him are Selman Waksman, Hans Albert Einstein, Karl Ziegler, Charles Greeley Abbot, Luis Carrero Blanco, and Jean-Pierre Melville. After him are A. S. Neill, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Amílcar Cabral, Lex Barker, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Ingeborg Bachmann.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Walter Rudolf Hess ranks 61 out of 876Before him are Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), H. R. Giger (1940), Gabriel Cramer (1704), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Ferdinand Hodler (1853), and Hans Küng (1928). After him are Paul Hermann Müller (1899), Emil Jannings (1884), Alexandre Yersin (1863), Max Frisch (1911), Alisha Lehmann (23), and Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784).

Among PHYSICIANS In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Walter Rudolf Hess ranks 6Before him are Paracelsus (1493), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Eugen Bleuler (1857), Emil Theodor Kocher (1841), and Friedrich Miescher (1844). After him are Alexandre Yersin (1863), Albrecht von Haller (1708), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672), Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867), and Adolf Meyer (1866).