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August Krogh
Schack August Steenberg Krogh was a Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916 to 1945. He contributed a number of fundamental discoveries within several fields of physiology, and is famous for developing Krogh's principle.
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science · Danish physiologist (1874–1949) · physician · zoologist · pedagogue · university teacher · physiologist · naturalist · also August Krogh, Schack August Steenberg Krogh, Krogh
Born 15 November 1874 · Died 13 September 1949 · Q152187
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2023· 1 entry
The New Indian Express: August Krogh: Physiology defined
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2020· 1 entry
Science News: Prof. August Krogh: Isotopes a Tool
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2018· 1 entry
Published “Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression” in Nature Genetics — cited 2,869 times.
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2004· 1 entry
Published “A Combined Transmembrane Topology and Signal Peptide Prediction Method” in Journal of Molecular Biology — cited 2,240 times.
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Predicting transmembrane protein topology with a hidden markov model: application to complete genomes11Edited by F. Cohen” in Journal of Molecular Biology — cited 11,584 times.
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1998· 2 entries
Published “Deciphering the biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the complete genome sequence” in Nature — cited 6,511 times.
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Published “Biological Sequence Analysis” — cited 2,925 times.
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1997· 1 entry
Published “The complete genome sequence of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis” in Nature — cited 2,819 times.
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1973· 1 entry
Published “A low-contamination method for hydrothermal decomposition of zircon and extraction of U and Pb for isotopic age determinations” in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta — cited 2,090 times.
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1949· 1 entry
Died 1949-09-13.
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1945· 1 entry
Won Baly Medal (1945).
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1940· 1 entry
Won Croonian Medal and Lecture (1940).
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1937· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1937).
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1931· 1 entry
An International Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1937, and an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1941
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1925· 1 entry
Brothers Harald and Thorvald Pedersen, who were former employees of Nordisk, formed their own company, Novo Terapeutisk Laboratorium
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1922· 2 entries
Awarded Silliman Memorial Lectures (1922).
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August Krogh went on a lecture tour to North America after receiving the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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1920· 4 entries
A Contribution to the Physiology of the Capillaries
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery of the capillary motor regulating mechanism.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1920).
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August Krogh was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the mechanism of regulation of the capillaries in skeletal muscle
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1908· 1 entry
And in 1916 was promoted to full professor, becoming the head of the first laboratory for animal physiology (zoophysiology) at the university
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1874· 2 entries
Born 1874-11-15.
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He married Marie Krogh (née Jørgensen, 1874–1943) in 1905.
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