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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Walter Rudolf Hess was born on 17 March 1881 in Switzerland. He trained as a physiologist and spent years probing the brain's deeper structures, isolating the regions that governed internal organs without conscious thought. In 1949 he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for that work, sharing it with Egas Moniz. His findings revealed how a few cubic millimeters of tissue could dictate pulse, digestion, temperature — the autonomic empire beneath awareness. He died on 12 August 1973, having charted territory most people never know they carry.