The International Astronomical Union named a crater on the Moon after him
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Joseph Erlanger
Joseph Erlanger was an American physiologist who is best known for his contributions to the field of neuroscience. Together with Herbert Spencer Gasser, he identified several varieties of nerve fiber and established the relationship between action potential velocity and fiber diameter. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for these achievements.
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science · American physiologist (1874–1965) · physician · neuroscientist · university teacher · physiologist · neurologist · also Joseph Erlanger, Erlanger
Born 5 January 1874 · Died 5 December 1965 · Q243532
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1965· 1 entry
Died 1965-12-05.
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1946· 1 entry
The Discovery of Vitamin K, Its Biological Functions and Therapeutical Application
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1944· 3 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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Won the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for these discoveries
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1931· 1 entry
When Gasser accepted a position at Cornell University
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1922· 2 entries
And published the results in the American Journal of Physiology
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And the American Philosophical Society in 1927
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1910· 1 entry
Left to take a position as professor at Washington University in St
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1906· 1 entry
Erlanger accepted a position as the first chair of physiology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison
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1901· 1 entry
Erlanger published a paper on the digestive systems of canines
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1899· 1 entry
From the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, where he finished second in his class
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1874· 1 entry
Born 1874-01-05.
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