Died 1963-05-11.
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Herbert Spencer Gasser
Herbert Spencer Gasser was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, awarded jointly with Joseph Erlanger.
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science · American physiologist (1888–1963) · physician · university teacher · psychologist · physiologist · neurologist · also Herbert Spencer Gasser, Herbert Gasser, Gasser
Born 5 July 1888 · Died 11 May 1963 · Q273201
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1954· 1 entry
Won George M. Kober Medal (1954).
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1953· 2 entries
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1953).
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Gasser continued his research
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1946).
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1944· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1944).
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For his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while on the faculty of Washington University in St
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When they jointly received the Nobel Prize (Gasser used his prize money to fund further research into the subject)
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1936· 1 entry
Gasser and Erlanger gave a series of lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, summarizing their investigations into the actions of human nerve cells
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1931· 1 entry
Gasser moved to New York City and became a professor of physiology at Cornell Medical College
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1916· 1 entry
Gasser moved to the department of physiology at Washington University
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1913· 1 entry
Where he received his medical degree in 1915
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1909· 1 entry
Studying physiology under Joseph Erlanger, and pharmacology under Arthur S
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1888· 1 entry
Born 1888-07-05.
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