March 17th
Born 17 Mar 1881; died 12 Aug 1973 at age 92.
Walter Rudolf Hess turned into a Swiss physiologist who shared (with António Egas Moniz) the 1949 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for “for his discovery of the useful agency of the interbrain as a coordinator of the sports of the inner organs.” In 1948, Hess devised appropriate strategies to implant electrodes with inside the brains of rats, from which he should discover regions of the mind related to sure instincts. Through his research, he recognized how specific regions of the mind (and in particular the hypothalamus) are concerned with the functioning of the body’s inner organs, and regions related to autonomic capabilities including sleep, starvation or protection mechanisms.
