biography
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Gasser, Herbert (Spencer)
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| lived:
| (1888–1963)
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| biography:
| Physiologist, born in Platteville, Wisconsin, USA. He became professor of pharmacology at Washington University, St Louis, in 1916, and of physiology at Cornell in 1931. From 1935 he was Director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. With Joseph Erlanger he made possible the electronic measurement of nerve impulses, and they shared the 1944 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their joint work on nerve fibres and nerve impulse transmission. |
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